Scale
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Inscribed
The Bank, Section &c. of Discount Office, and plan and elevations labelled (Soane): Governors Room, Coffee Room, Part of the Discount / Office, For the public, Qy door, Arch (twice), Door into Vestibule / & Court Room &c, (capitals) Discount Office, Wood, Wood Pil(aster), Gl(ass) (six times), Glass (twice), (capitals) Discount Office, Rub: glass (four times), * See Soffite / LIF Library, Door in Passage / to range with Im- (impost? sheet trimmed) / in Bullion- (Court? sheet trimmed), Old doors / to be used / old dado, (red pen) 1:0 Stone arch, Stone Arch and dimensions given
Signed and dated
Hand
Soane
Notes
Two segmental arches span the room at a higher springing point than the segmental arches screening the aisles. Soane's inscription ('See Soffite / LIF Library') orders the same detailing as used for the soffits of Soane's own library at 12 Lincoln's Inn Fields (no longer extant). The inscription also indicates the east aisle as the public area with an entrance from the lobby to the north-east and exit to the south (the right-hand side of the elevation at the top of the sheet). As in SM volume 75/8, the section at the bottom of the sheet shows the walls of the adjacent Governors Room and Coffee Room. The Coffee Room is lit by a window at a higher level, with the brick masonry forming an angled path for light to reach down into the room's interior.
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Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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
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