Composites of designs for the new buildings and Triumphal Arch on Downing Street, January 1826 (2)

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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 (213) 49/5/12 (214) 49/5/14

Purpose

Composites of designs for the new buildings and Triumphal Arch on Downing Street, January 1826 (2)

Aspect

213 Three site plans 214 Three site plans

Scale

(213, 214) bar scales of 13/12 inch to 100 feet

Inscribed

213 labelled: State Paper Office, Foreign Office, Fludyer Street, Mr Canning, Foreign Office, Downing Square, Downing Street, Council Offices, Court, Board of Trade, Treasury Passage

Signed and dated

(213) Lincolns Inn Fields Jan^y 1826 (214) Lincolns Inn Fields / Jan^y 1826

Medium and dimensions

(213, 214) Pencil, pink, sepia, blue and green washes, pricked for transfer with single ruled pencil borders on wove paper (125 x 477, 126 x 475)

Hand

Soane office

Notes

These two drawings seem to be copies of each other. They are reduced copies of drawings 188, 191 and 212. They are neat and in the style of presentation drawings, which leads to the belief that they could have been made for the comparison of three different designs by the Treasury officials.

Level

Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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