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  • image SM 53/4/76

Reference number

SM 53/4/76

Purpose

[358] Working drawing, Court of King's Bench, early 1824

Aspect

Plan and of the main (ground) floor of the Court of King's Bench, and adajacent office and corridors, with furnishings shown, almost as originally executed

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Attendants / Attorneys / Clerks / desk / Flap (x 2) / Jury / Kings Counsell / Seat (x 6) / Seat for Clerks / Students / Tribunall / Scale of Feet dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 1824
    dated in accordance with known building campaign

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, wash, coloured washes of yellow, orange and blue, pen, pricked for transfer on wove paper (498 x 720)

Hand

Sir John Soane RA (1753 - 1837), architect
Soane Office, draughtsman

Watermark

Smith & Allnutt / 1823

Notes

The drawing is annotated in Soane's hand. It is to a smaller scale than SM 53/4/76, showing the New Palace Yard façade with curved corners and four giant order columns. Squared corners have been lightly sketched over these areas in pencil. The staircase behind the New Palace Yard façade has been redrawn further west than its original position. A line scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot appears unrelated to this plan.

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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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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