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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
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 Jany 1826 (214) Lincolns Inn Fields / Jany 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
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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