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Literature: M. Acres, The Bank of England from Within, 1931, pp. 387-389.
Madeleine Helmer, 2011
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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.
Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).
Contents of Barracks, 1805-1807 (19)
- [1] Presentation drawing for the north side of the Great Quadrangle, 8 May 1805
- [2] Presentation drawing for the north side of the Great Quadrangle, 9 May 1805
- [3] Preliminary alternative designs for the south entrance, 16 May 1805
- [4] Variant design for the south entrance with twin Doric columns flanking the entry, 18 May 1805
- [5] Variant design for the south entrance with twin Doric columns flanking the entry, 18 May 1805
- [6] Variant design for the south entrance with twin Doric columns flanking the entry, 18 May 1805
- [7] Alternative preliminary designs for the north entrance, May 1803
- [8] Variant design for the north elevation with rusticated pilasters, 3 June 1805
- [9] Variant design for the north elevation with rusticated pilasters
- [10] Variant design for the north elevation with rusticated columns
- [11] Variant design for the north elevation with rusticated columns, 30 May 1805
- [12] Variant presentation drawing for the south elevation with twin rusticated columns flanking two doors
- [13] Variant presentation drawing for the south elevation with twin rusticated columns flanking two doors, 24 June 1805
- [14] Design for the buildings and courts south of the screen wall, 25 June 1805
- [15] Design for the buildings and courts south of the screen wall
- [16] Record drawing of the Barracks as built, October 1805
- [17] Record drawing of the Barracks as built, August 1805
- [18] Working drawing for the entablature on the north entrance
- [19] Record drawing of the Armoury, 1810