[435] Presentation drawing, alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, before 18 January 1825

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Reference number

SM 53/3/47

Purpose

[435] Presentation drawing, alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, before 18 January 1825

Aspect

Elevation of the linking range between the Court of King's Bench and Westminster Hall, showing the former with four crenelles at its upper level and five at its lower, with the north-west tower of the Hall, unexecuted

Scale

bar scale of ³/₈ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

New Law Courts.- / No.. 2.. Submitted to Sir Charles Long at the Army pay Office / Tuesday Jan[uar]^y. 18. 1825. at the same time as the drawing marked N^o 1. dimensions given

Signed and dated

17/01/1825
Jan[uar]^y. 1825
dated in accordance with corresponding Day Books entry

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, wash, pen, pricked for transfer on wove paper (509 x 714)

Hand

Possibly George Bailey (1792 - 1860), draughtsman
The Day Book entry for 17 January 1825 notes that George Bailey was About Drawings of Church & / Courts.

Watermark

Smith & Allnutt / 1820

Notes

The central crenelle and merlons to the linking range are shown as slightly smaller (4ft and 2ft 6in. respectively) to those on the adjacent towers of Westminster Hall. An alternative proposal (N^o. 1.) is given in SM 53/3/46. The latter is clearly in the same hand; the draughtsmanship being prefunctory to the point of crude.

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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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