[224] Survey on completion, Court of Chancery, c 1823-26

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Office of Works
  - London: Palace of Westminster: The New Law Courts, surveys and designs, 1820-32 (507)
    - New Law Courts - Second Scheme, 1821-29 (345)
      - Southern Range - Vice Chancellor's Court, Court of Chancery & Lord Chancellor's Room, 1822-29 (82)
        Court of Chancery, 1822-26 (22)
        Survey drawings on completion, 1824-26 (9)

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Reference number

P274

Purpose

[224] Survey on completion, Court of Chancery, c 1823-26

Aspect

Perspective view of the interior of the Court of Chancery, seen from a north-east position in the Public Corridor looking south west, with furnishings, as originally designed and part-executed

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

(frame) Court of Chancery, Westminster, (Sir John Soane, 1823.)

Signed and dated

c 1823-26
dated in accordance with inscription on frame

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, coloured washes and pen on paper, framed (unframed dimensions 953 x 733)

Hand

Joseph Michael Gandy ARA (1771 - 1843), draughtsman
attributed in Mellinghoff, Summerson & Watkin (1983), p. 108.

Verso

not inspected

Notes

The drawing is clearly a finely worked-up version of drawing SM Vol 61/67, which gives almost exactly the same view onto the Court room proper. Most noticably the allegorical busts on the gallery's pedestals. The perspective is populated with figures suggesting that the Court is in session. Their scale is somewhat diminutive in comparisson to their setting.

Literature

Mellinghoff, Summerson & Watkin (1983), p. 108.

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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