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Designs for completing the buildings in Downing Street, 1828 (4)
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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 (272) 49/5/37 (273) 49/5/40 (274) 49/5/26 (275) 49/3/39
Purpose
Designs for completing the buildings in Downing Street, 1828 (4)
Aspect
272 Plan of the new government buildings
273 Three elevations of the new government buildings
274 Plan and elevation of the new government buildings; (verso) two general plans of the new government buildings
275 Elevation of the Triumphal Arch and the range containing the Home Office, Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices; (verso): elevation of the New State Paper Office
Scale
(272) bar scale of 1/5 inch to 10 feet (273, 274) bar scales of 5/12 inch to 10 feet (274 verso) bar scale of 1/5 inch to 10 feet (275 verso) bar scale of 1/9 inch to 1 foot
Medium and dimensions
(272) Pen, sepia and burnt Sienna washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper with one fold mark (389 x 457) (273) pen, sepia and burnt Sienna washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (541 x 748) (274) pen, sepia, pink and burnt Sienna washes, (verso) pencil, pricked for transfer on wove paper (521 x 739) (275) pen, sepia, grey, pink and burnt Sienna washes, pricked for transfer on two sheets of wove paper, affixed (315 x 427)
Hand
(272-275) Soane office
Watermark
(273, 274) Smith & Allnutt 1823
Notes
Drawing 272 shows, in pencil, the line of the front of the old government buildings on Whitehall. The lower Triumphal Arch has been added later and suggests that Soane was not at this point fully decided on the location of the Arch.
Drawing 273 shows three variant designs for the new buildings and Triumphal Arch. The left (south) half of the top design is copied at the bottom of the sheet. The building shown in burnt Sienna wash to the left (south) of the new buildings is a replica of the old tennis court. The main difference between the designs is the treatment of the attics.
On drawing 274 is another design for the new Home Office with a portico of six columns slightly projecting from a front that is wider than the other corner pavilions. The same design is shown on drawing 275. The Soane office drawings for the New State Paper Office, which is shown on the verso of drawing 275, will be catalogued in 2014.
Drawing 273 shows three variant designs for the new buildings and Triumphal Arch. The left (south) half of the top design is copied at the bottom of the sheet. The building shown in burnt Sienna wash to the left (south) of the new buildings is a replica of the old tennis court. The main difference between the designs is the treatment of the attics.
On drawing 274 is another design for the new Home Office with a portico of six columns slightly projecting from a front that is wider than the other corner pavilions. The same design is shown on drawing 275. The Soane office drawings for the New State Paper Office, which is shown on the verso of drawing 275, will be catalogued in 2014.
Level
Drawing
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