Design for the new buildings and Triumphal Arch on Downing Street, January 1826

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Office of Works
  - 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 for the new government buildings on Whitehall and the completion of Downing Street with a Triumphal Arch, December 1825-May 1833 (100)

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Reference number

SM (212) 49/5/33

Purpose

Design for the new buildings and Triumphal Arch on Downing Street, January 1826

Aspect

212 Site plan with Section shewing the Levels of the Paving in Fludyer S^t

Scale

bar scale of 4/5 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

labelled: Whitehall, Council Offices, (pencil) ----- (illegible) Line, Board of Trade, Hall (5 times), Passage, Staircase (3 times), Treasury Passage, (pencil) Court, Treasury Passage leading to the Park, Treasury, Melbourne House, (pencil) Area, S^t James Park, Garden belonging to / the Treasury, Areas &^c (twice), M^r Lushington, Area, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Downing Square, Park, 2'6'', M^r Canning, 5'6'', Foreign Office, Private Houses, Fludyer Street, 4'3'', King S^t

Signed and dated

Lincolns Inn Fields / Jan^y 26^th 1826

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pink, sepia, yellow ochre and blue washes, pricked for transfer with quadruple ruled, sepia and black wash border on wove paper (536 x 742)

Hand

Stephen Burchell (1806-?, pupil 1823-28)

Watermark

Smith & Allnutt 1823

Notes

The new building on the south side of Downing Street - identified elsewhere as the State Paper Office - has columns only at the corners of the pavilion and therefore matches the perspective drawing 196. The part plan in pencil on the right of the drawing is a detail of the facilities and area between the stables and the Treasury. Alterations to the Foreign Office which were carried out by Soane in 1826 are also shown in pink wash (q.v. Soane: Office of Works: London: Old Foreign Office, Downing Street: designs for alterations, 1825).

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