[316] Record drawing, Court of King's Bench, September 1826

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Reference number

SM Vol 61/48

Purpose

[316] Record drawing, Court of King's Bench, September 1826

Aspect

Interior perspective of the main (ground) floor of the Court of King's Bench looking west, as executed

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

View of the Court of King's Bench, / looking towards the Tribunal, as designed. / N^o. 32 (erased)

Signed and dated

01/09/1826 - 30/09/1826
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Medium and dimensions

Pencil, coloured washes including crimson and sepia, within single ruled border on laid paper (449 x 267) mounted on buff sugar paper bound in volume (341 x 532)

Hand

Probably Joseph Michael Gandy ARA (1771 - 1843), draughtsman

Notes

As with SM Vol 61/49, the arches of the upper level are shown back-hung with scarlet curtaining to match the upholstery of the tribunal. The artefixes beneath the skylight windows, shown in SM Vol 61/49, are omitted.

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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.

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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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