Designs for new Privy Council Offices, July 1824 (2)

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - London: Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, Whitehall & Downing Street: designs for new offices and scheme for the improvement of Downing Street, 1823-33 (284)
    - Designs and working drawings for the new Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, December 1823-October 1824 (106)

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Reference number

SM (81) 49/3/11 (82) 50/3/1

Purpose

Designs for new Privy Council Offices, July 1824 (2)

Aspect

81 Perspective View of a Design for the New Council Offices, Board of Trade &^c at Whitehall from the south east 82 Perspective Design for the New Board of Trade and Council Offices 1824 / by Sir John Soane Arch^t from the south east

Inscribed

81 as above 82 as above, (added later by Walter L. Spiers, curator, in pencil) Adam Recess / Drawer 88 / D. 5 Sheets 1824 / 5 / D page 180; (verso, in Soane's hand) This drawing was shewn to M^r Robinson / on Friday the 9' July accompanied with the / small model with ¾ Col. Mr Robinson app[rove]^d / of the order of Col. as shewn in this / drawing & directed me to proceed with the work / Tuesday 13' July attended at Fife House / L^d L. proposed a balustrade to be placed over the attic of the Corridor / & which has been added to this / draw^g accordingly

Signed and dated

(81) 1^st July 1824 (82) 2/7/24

Medium and dimensions

(81) Pencil, sepia, black and burnt umber washes with single ruled border on wove paper (426 x 570) (82) pencil, sepia, black, burnt umber, raw Sienna, blue and brown madder washes with triple ruled and sepia wash border on wove paper (480 x 593)

Hand

(81, 82) Edward Davis (1802-52, pupil 1824-26)

Watermark

(81, 82) Weatherley & Lane 1818

Notes

Drawing 82 closely follows the preparatory drawing (76) made at the end of June. It shows a design by Soane for the new offices with three-quarters engaged columns. The building is under construction, with shovels, picks and wheelbarrows scattered around. In the foreground are various architectural fragments - either ruins of an ancient building or pieces to be used in the new one - including a capital of the Tivoli order and a piece of a cornice with part of a fret pattern. The attic was added later to the designs and the drawings at the request of Lord Liverpool.

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