Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [10] Record drawing of the Rotunda and Four Per Cent Office with a design for an unbuilt transfer office to the south, 14 August 1805
  • image SM 11/6/1
Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image
Print this image in A4 view  (icon indicating printer link)

Reference number

SM 11/6/1

Purpose

[10] Record drawing of the Rotunda and Four Per Cent Office with a design for an unbuilt transfer office to the south, 14 August 1805

Aspect

Elevation looking west, of Rotunda flanked by transfer office on either side, both designed as the Four Per Cent Office

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

(Bailey) Section through the "Consols Dividend Office", "The Rotunda", The "4 £ per Cent Office" (as designed)

Signed and dated

  • August 14 1805

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing shows the Four Per Cent Office duplicated on the opposite side of the Rotunda. When this drawing was made, Robert Taylor's two transfer halls still occupied two of the offices adjoining the Rotunda; they were not rebuilt until 1817 and 1821.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

John Soane Architect: Master of Space and Light, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 11 September - 3 December 1999; Centro Palladio, Vicenza, April - August 2000; Hôtel de Rohan, Paris, January - April 2001; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, 16 May - 3 September 2001; Real Academia des Bellas Artes, Madrid, October - December 2001

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.


Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).