| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: London, England, United Kingdom | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 1788-1833 (creation) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Soane, John | en_US |
| dc.date | 1788-1833 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-02-20T17:25:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-02-20T17:25:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1788-1833 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 192288 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 1355 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/99573 | |
| dc.description | Side view of the entry portico on the south (front) elevation facing Threadneedle Street (upper stories not by Soane); [Only the ground exterior walls survive from Soan's design - the rest was destroyed in the 1920's and 30's when the Bank was enlarged.] In 1788 the Bank consisted of a Palladian core of the 1730s by George Sampson ( fl 1718-?1764), with extensive single-storey east and west wings of 1765-1770 by Taylor. Between 1792 and 1833 Soane rebuilt much of this earlier work as well as greatly expanding the Bank to the north-west. The first section of the rusticated, windowless screen wall with which Soane was eventually to surround the whole Bank was begun in 1795; it is all that survives of Soane's work at the Bank. To enliven this wall he articulated it with the rich Corinthian order of the so-called Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, which he had sketched while in Italy. His use of this order reached a climax in 1805 with the Tivoli Corner at the north-west angle of the Bank: a curved composition of considerable richness and complexity. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/5/2008) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | stone | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | architectural exteriors | en_US |
| dc.subject | business, commerce and trade | en_US |
| dc.subject | financial | en_US |
| dc.subject | commerce | en_US |
| dc.subject | Nineteenth century | en_US |
| dc.title | Bank of England | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 1A1-SSJ-BE-A4 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | British | en_US |
| vra.technique | construction (assembling) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | bank (building) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | John Soane (British architect, 1753-1837) | en_US |
