Designs for the new buildings, 1826 (9)

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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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SM (203) 50/6/1 (204) 50/6/2 (205) 50/6/3 (206) 50/6/4 (207) 50/6/5 (208) 50/6/6 (209) 50/6/7 (210) 50/6/8 (211) 50/6/9

Purpose

Designs for the new buildings, 1826 (9)

Aspect

203 Perspective of the new buildings on either side of Downing Street with a Triumphal Arch from the south east 204 Perspective of the new buildings on either side of Downing Street with a Triumphal Arch from the south east 205 Perspective of the new buildings on either side of Downing Street from the north east 206 Perspective of Downing Street with a Triumphal Arch 207 Perspective of Downing Street with a Triumphal Arch 208 Front elevation of the new buildings on either side of Downing Street with a Triumphal Arch 209 Perspective of Downing Street with a Triumphal Arch 210 Perspective of the new building on the south side of Downing Street from the north east 211 Perspective of Downing Street with a Triumphal Arch

Inscribed

203 (pencil) B1 204 (pencil) B2 205 (pencil) B3 206 (pencil) B4, 6 Columns 207 (pencil) B5, 6 Columns 208 (pencil) A1 209 (pencil) A2 210 (pencil) A3 211 (pencil) A4

Medium and dimensions

(203-211) Pencil, sepia and blue washes on card (all approximately 123 x 157)

Hand

Soane office

Watermark

(204, 210) Whatman 1824

Notes

Drawings 203-211 form a set of postcard-sized perspectives showing the new offices with three variant designs for the new State Paper Office (the intended building on the south side of Downing Street). On all of the designs the frontage facing Whitehall has a solitary column on either of the four-bay frontage. On drawings 209 and 210, the Downing Street frontage is identical to this. On drawings 206 and 207, however, the Downing Street frontage has six columns. On drawing 211, the same frontage has only five columns.
An obvious explanation for the small size of the drawings might be portability. This could also explain why the drawings were made on card rather than paper.

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Drawing

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