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Reference number

SM Vol 61/66

Purpose

[251] Survey on completion, Vice-Chancellor's Court, 16 August 1826

Aspect

Interior perspective of the ceiling and lantern of the Vice Chancellor's Court looking either west or east, as executed

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

View of the Lantern Light in the centre / of the ceiling in the Vice-Chancellor's Court./ No. 19 (erased)

Signed and dated

  • 16/08/1826
    16 August. 1826.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, colour washes including blue, raw umber and sepia, within single ruled border on laid paper (284 x 454) mounted on buff sugar paper bound in volume (339 x 534)

Hand

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

Notes

The lantern's plan was a regular square, set over a Court room which was an oblong, slightly longer than its breadth. To accommodate this, the ceiling's cove at the Court's narrower ends (east and west) rose to an additional panel, bordered by a raised moulding, on opposite sides of the lantern's lintels.

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.

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