[51] Survey, Court of Equity, 28 March 1823

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [51] Survey, Court of Equity, 28 March 1823

Browse

Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Office of Works
  - London: Palace of Westminster: The New Law Courts, surveys and designs, 1820-32 (507)
    - Survey Drawings - Previously Extant Buildings, 1820-23 (122)
      - Courts & Offices Surveys (110)
        East Range, 1820-23 (25)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM Vol 48/41

Purpose

[51] Survey, Court of Equity, 28 March 1823

Aspect

Interior perspective of the main (first) floor of the Court of Equity, with furnishings, looking north

Scale

to a rough scale

Inscribed

View of the Court of Equity. / A / B[lack] (x 6) / Blue (x 2) / green (x 2) / matting / white (x 3) / yellow / 1 2 8 dimensions given

Signed and dated

28/03/1823
28^th. March / 1823.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, wash, colour washes of raw umber, green and blue, on wove paper bound in volume (271 x 211)

Hand

Attributed to Arthur Patrick Mee (1802 - 1868), draughtsman
The sheet has a curatorial annotation attributing this perspective to Arthur Mee.

Notes

Correspodning sections through the Court of Equity are given in SM Vol 48/17 - 19; the latter including the three arches of the of Court's north wall. A detail of the buttress corbel is given in SM Vol 48/38. This perspective corresponds closely with that included in John Buckler's survey of 1822, though this drawing omits any Court furnishings (reproduced in Colvin, 1966, p. 37, fig. 60). There appears to be a copy of this drawing, annotated in a different hand, and dated to circa 1820 by Colvin (see Colvin, 1966, p. 37, fig. 59). A now lost exterior view of the Court, attributed to William Capon and dated 1806, is reproduced in Colvin, 1966, p. 37, fig. 58.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation. This catalogue of Soane’s designs for the New Law Courts was generously funded by The Worshipful Company of Mercers and The Pilgrim Trust.

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

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).