Designs for entrances to the new houses, September 1807 (5)

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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
  - London: New Bank Buildings, Princes Street, City of London, 1807-10 (115)

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Reference number

SM (11) 11/2/17 verso (12) 11/3/21 (13) 11/3/21 verso (14) 11/3/20 (15) 11/3/22

Purpose

Designs for entrances to the new houses, September 1807 (5)

Aspect

11 Elevations, plans and details of a porch 12 Design for Entrance Doorway / to House N^o 2 13 Details of cornice of entrance to No. 3 14 Design for Entrance Doorway / to House N^o 2 15 Detail of an architrave; (verso) detail of Cornice to ^{^over Doors of} N^o 1 & 5

Scale

(11) to a scale and full size (12, 14) bar scales of 4/5 inch to 1 foot (13, 15) full size

Inscribed

11 labelled (red ink): Supposed paving of footpath, Inside of Window, Plate, Floor, Section threw front wall, Kerb, Area, (pen): Covered flat, Arch, (red ink): Plan of Ground floor, Plan of the one pair, (pen): 2 inches, Arch, line of frieze, line of Wall, foot paving and dimensions given 12 as above, labelled: Bank of England, New Houses Princes Street, Hollow, Hall / see / plan, (red ink) floor (twice) and dimensions given 13 labelled: Great Cornice, Real ---- (illegible), Architrave over Ionic Col, Pilas[ters] (sic), Wall line 14 as above, labelled: The Bank of England / New Houses Princes Street, Floor and dimensions given 15 labelled: The Bank of England / New Houses in Princes Street, Bank House, Architrave, Abacus, line / of / fr- (cut off); (verso): as above, only these mould^gs in the Railing part / the Basement omitted, next / Grocers Garden and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

(11) Sep^t 6 1807 (12) Sep^t 7 1807 (13) Sep 8 1807 (14, 15) Sept 12 1807

Medium and dimensions

(11) Pen and red ink on wove paper (12) pen, red ink, sepia and raw Sienna washes, (11, 12) pricked for transfer on laid paper with one fold mark (675 x 468, 682 x 553) (13, 15) brown ink, pricked for transfer on laid paper (13) with one fold mark (15) with two fold marks (14) pen, sepia, pink and raw Sienna washes, (13-15) pricked for transfer on wove paper (682 x 553, 690 x 464, 645 x 524)

Hand

(11, 13, 15) Soane (12) Robert Dennis Chantrell (1793-1872, pupil 1807-14) (14) James Adams, jnr. (1785-1850, pupil 1806-09)

Watermark

(14) A Stace

Notes

Drawing 11 shows a design for the pedimented entrance at the left of the main frontage. Above this entrance, over a frieze decorated with fret moulding, are a pair of columns. The entrance shown in the variant drawings 12 and 14 has a semicircular pediment with a ribboned wreath motif.

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Drawing

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