[484] Drawing for publication, Court of King's Bench, January 1829

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Reference number

SM 53/6/4

Purpose

[484] Drawing for publication, Court of King's Bench, January 1829

Aspect

Plan of the main (ground) floor of the Court of King's Bench and adjacent offices, with plans of the basement and upper levels, and of Record Building to the east of Westminster Hall, unexecuted

Scale

bar scale of ¹/₂₀ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of the Court of King’s Bench at Westminster, shewing the several Rooms / and accommodations originally designed, &c. &c. / Ante Room / Coffee Room (x 3) / Entrance for / the Barristers &^c / Entrance in the / Coffee Rooms ^&c (x 2) / Entrance for / the Judges / Entrance for the / Kings Counsel / Entrance for the Public / Lobby (x 2) / Upper part of the / Court of / Kings Bench / Vestibule / Waiting / Room

Signed and dated

01/01/1829 - 31/01/1829
Jan[uar]^y. 1829

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash, coloured washes of pink, blue and yellow, pricked for transfer on laid paper (282 x 422)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Watermark

CA (compund letter)

Notes

There is a clear band of erasure and redrawing around the lower perrimeter of the plan of the main (ground) floor of the Court of King's Bench, and an erased border around the lowest plan on this drawing.

Level

Drawing

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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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