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Working drawing for the Board of Trade Offices showing the height of the building, January 1825
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- Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
Reference number
SM (125) 49/6/17
Purpose
Working drawing for the Board of Trade Offices showing the height of the building, January 1825
Aspect
125 Part section looking south
Scale
bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
New Board of Trade and Council Offices Whitehall, labelled: Pavement of Street, Pavement
Signed and dated
- Lincolns Inn Fields / 12th Jany 1825
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia, pink and blue washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper with one fold mark (528 x 733)
Hand
Charles James Richardson (1809-71, pupil and assistant 1824-1837)
Watermark
Smith & Allnutt 1820
Notes
Drawing 125 was perhaps made to demonstrate the distance the observer would have to be from the building in order to see the top of the balustrade over the corridor. It is potentially relevant that at the Select Committee inquiry in 1828 Robinson reported that 'I conceived, (although I do not recollect that it appeared in the drawing), that it [the balustrade over the corridor] would be invisible from the street, and that at all events it was to be part of an entire story, and not merely two walls very near together for the mere purpose of concealing the skylights... When the details of the building were subsequently more thoroughly explained, I was very much struck with its want of height, and I stated my feelings on the subject very decidedly to Mr. Soane.'
Level
Drawing
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