Working drawings with details for the iron girders, May 1831 (4)

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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: New State Paper Office, Duke Street, Westminster, 1829-34 (207)

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Reference number

SM (105) 82/2/11 (106) 82/2/9 (107) 82/2/7 (108) 82/2/6

Purpose

Working drawings with details for the iron girders, May 1831 (4)

Aspect

105 Plan of the Basement Story (incorrectly inscribed by George Bailey as Plan of the Ground Floor)
106 Plan of the Ground Floor (Soane's hand) or Principal Floor (Bailey's hand) with details of iron girders
107 Plan of the Principal or First Floor (Soane's hand) or One Pair Floor (Bailey's hand) with detail of iron girders
108 Plan of the Attic Story (Soane's hand) or Attics (Bailey's hand)

Scale

(105-108) bar scales of 1/6 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

105 as above, labelled (in Soane's hand): H Keeper, Ch[imne]^y(7 times), Larder, Water / Closet, M^r L Dress / Room, Library / &^c, Wine Cellar, Staircase, Housekeeper, Eating Room, Drawing Room, Kitchen / &^c, Recess (twice) and dimensions given
106 as above, labelled (in Soane's hand): Hall, Ch^y(7 times), Messenger, Closet, Water / Clos, Bookbinder, Principal Floor (twice) and dimensions given
107 as above, labelled (in Soane's hand): Library, Recess, Ch^y(6 times)
108 as above, labelled (in Soane's hand): Attic Library, Ch^y

Signed and dated

May 1831
(105-108) (in Soane's hand) May 1831 and (108) (pencil) 14^th May 1831

Medium and dimensions

(105) Pen, pink and grey washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper with modern repair from centre to right (520 x 546) (106-108) pen, pink, grey, blue and yellow washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (515 x 543, 525 x 541, 520 x 545)

Hand

Soane office

Watermark

(105-108) Smith & Allnutt 1823

Notes

Drawings 105-108 include details of the iron girders whose purpose it was to support the floors and brick arches in the north part of the building. See also drawing 100.

Level

Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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