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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Bank of England
  - The Bank of England Branch Banks, 1826-1831 (353)
    - Unidentified bank building (1)

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Reference number

SM 48/1/1

Purpose

Survey drawing

Aspect

Ground floor plan

Scale

bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

(red pen): Entrance, Messenger & Porter, Fireplace, Strong Room / for / Books & Records, Stair Case & Passage, Passage, Superintendants (sic) / Desk, Desk (twice), 2 Clerks, Counter, (brown pen): For the / Public, 1 Clerk, and some dimensions given; (verso, pencil): 6 Dawe Pl-- (illegible) / Clapham -- (illegible)

Medium and dimensions

Pen, red pen and sepia wash, pricked for transfer on stout wove paper with three fold marks (395 x 392)

Hand

local surveyor

Notes

Although the location of the building in this undated drawing is not known it can be identified by its inscriptions as a bank. The building, which is roughly 22 feet wide and 27 feet deep, has a 'strong room', 'superintendent's desk' and counters, as well as an area 'for the public', all of which suggests its function.

Level

Drawing

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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.

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