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Further designs for the new Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, May 1824 (3)
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Reference number
SM (51) 49/3/6 (52) 49/3/3 (53) 49/3/4
Purpose
Further designs for the new Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, May 1824 (3)
Aspect
51 Perspective Design for the New Buildings for the Board of Trade &c
52 Perspective of Council Office and Board of Trade
53 Perspective Sketch of a Design for the New Buildings for the Board of Trade &c at Whitehall
Inscribed
51 as above
52 as above, Design No 4, No 5
53 as above
Signed and dated
- (51) 26/5/24 and 1824 (52) May 1824 (53) 27/5/24
Medium and dimensions
(51-53) Pencil, sepia and blue washes with single ruled border on wove paper (459 x 551, 445 x 554, 442 x 558)
Hand
(51-53) Charles James Richardson (1809-71, pupil and assistant 1824-1837)
Watermark
(51-53) Weatherley & Lane 1818
Notes
Soane's designs from the end of May have a continuous Ionic columnar frontage. Later designs retained the columnar facade but replaced the Ionic with the Corinthian order. In drawing 53 the entire frontage is rusticated, whereas in drawings 51 and 52 only the ground floor receives this treatment. The entablature on drawing 52 recedes between the columns. Drawing 53 has a balustrade and an attic over the centre of the building.
Level
Drawing
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