Designs for the new buildings and Triumphal Arch on Downing Street, April 1826 (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 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 (225) 49/5/25 (226) 49/5/34

Purpose

Designs for the new buildings and Triumphal Arch on Downing Street, April 1826 (2)

Aspect

225 Site plan 226 Site plan

Scale

(225, 226) bar scales of 5/12 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

225 labelled: King Street, State Paper Office, Fludyer Street, M^r Planta, Hall, Dining Room, S^t James's Park (twice), Judge Advocate, M^r Lushington, Garden (twice), Chancellor of the Exchequer, Leading to the Park, Area (4 times), Melbourne House, Low Building, Hall (5 times), 21 x 11, 26 x 17, 21 x 26, Treasury Passage, Board of Trade, Council Offices, Whitehall 226 labelled: King Street, Q[eur]^y State Paper Office, Fludyer Street, Downing Place, Foreign Office, M^r Canning's House, S^t James's Park (twice), The Jude Advocate's / House, M^r Lushington, Garden (twice), The Chancellor of the / Exchequer's House, Passage leading to the Park, Treasury Passage, Melbourne House, Secretary of state / Home Department, Board of Trade, Council Offices, Whitehall

Signed and dated

(225) Lincolns Inn Fields / 15 April 1826 (226) Lincolns Inn Fields April 1826

Medium and dimensions

(225, 226) Pen, sepia, pink, grey, blue and green washes, pricked for transfer with seven ruled, sepia and black wash border on wove paper (533 x 731, 529 x 722)

Hand

(225) Stephen Burchell (1806-?, pupil 1823-28) (226) George Bailey (1792-1860, pupil then assistant 1806-37, curator 1837-60)

Watermark

(225, 226) Smith & Allnutt 1823

Notes

Similar in design to drawings 187-191 and 212-214, drawings 225 and 226 show the Downing Street site with the proposed State Paper Office and Triumphal Arch and alterations to the Foreign Office. On drawing 225 the Arch is shown in two locations in dotted lines and further along Downing Street in pink wash. Drawing 225 shows the State Paper Office with a bowed (west) end. Other distinctions on drawing 226 include a new entrance to the stables and a concave pavement line behind the Privy Council Offices (compared to a convex line of pavement on drawing 225).

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