Designs for the new buildings, June 1826 (3)

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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 (228) 49/2/1 (229) 50/1/21 (230) 50/1/22

Purpose

Designs for the new buildings, June 1826 (3)

Aspect

228 Plan of the Basement Story of the Board of Trade Offices shewing the Appropriation of the several / Rooms after the completion of the Building 229 General Plan of the Ground Floor / (in Soane's hand) shewing the alterations in the / Home Department 230 Plan of the Principal Floor

Scale

(228) bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot (229, 230) bar scales of 1/12 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

228 as above, The Board of Trade, labelled: C / Centre of / Front, Office Keeper's / Larder, Coal Cellar, HK / Store Room, Office Keeper's / Store Room, Office Keepers / Pantry, Office Keepers / Kitchen, Housekeeper's Kitchen &c, HK / Larder, WC, House Keepers / Sitting Room, Office Keeper's / Sitting Room, Book / Room, Wash house and (pencil) some dimensions given 229 as above, New Council Offices and Board of Trade, labelled: Downing Street, Messenger, M^r Gaitskell, M^r Hamilton, Staircase, Hall, M^r Leonard, Corridor (twice), M^r Patch, Entrance Hall, Waiting Room, M^r Perring, M^r Webb, Hall, Passage leading to the Treasury, Staircase, M^r Porter, M^r F Lock, Deputy / M^r Joyce, M^r Jacob, Principal Staircase, M^r Chester, M^r D Barry, M^r Devey, Entrance Hall, Office Keeper, Lumber Room 230 as above, New Council Offices and Board of Trade, labelled: M^r Harrison, Clerk, Staircase, Sir W Pym, Registrar's / Room, Hon^ble M^r Bathurst, M^r Rawson, M^r Lack / 22'9'' by 17'0'', M^r E Lack / 10'3'' by 17'0'', M^r Loft / 22'9'' by 17'0'', M^r Hume, Treasury, Passage leading to the Treasury, Staircase, Vice President / 17'6'' by 21'0'', President / 20.0 by 21.0, Board Room / 30.6 by 21.9, Principal Staircase, Marquiss (sic) of / Lansdown, M^r Greville, Corridor, Waiting Room, Robing Room, Ante-Room, Council Chamber

Signed and dated

(228, 230) 1826 (232) Lincolns Inn Fields / June 1826

Medium and dimensions

(228, 230) Pen, pink and grey washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (509 x 677, 517 x 713) (229) pen, pink, blue and grey washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper with a large tear repaired with laid paper (515 x 715)

Hand

(228-230) George Bailey (1792-1860, pupil then assistant 1806-37, curator 1837-60)

Watermark

(228) 1813 (sic) (229, 230) Smith & Allnutt 1823

Level

Drawing

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