[281] Presentation drawing, Courts of Exchequer and Equity, 1 July 1825

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [281] Presentation drawing, Courts of Exchequer and Equity, 1 July 1825

Browse

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)
      - Central Range - Court of Common Pleas, Court of Exchequer, Court of Equity & Bail Court, 1822-26 (37)
        Court of Exchequer, 1822-26 (12)
        Design drawings, 1822-25 (2)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM 53/2/41

Purpose

[281] Presentation drawing, Courts of Exchequer and Equity, 1 July 1825

Aspect

Plan of the mian floor of the Court of Exchequer and the Court of Equity, and adjacent ancillary spaces including the entrances from St Margaret's Street and Westminster Hall, showing proposed furnishings, as executed

Scale

bar scale of ¹/₄inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan shewing the Seats & other Fittings in the Court of Exchequer / and the Court of Equity:- 1825, / Attorneys (x 4) / Barristers (x 4) / Book Case / Counsel (x 2) / Court Keeper / Cryer / of Court / Judges (x 3) / Jury / Kings Counsel (x 2) / Kings Remembrancers (x 2) / Students / Tab Master / Table (x 2) / Table & Desk / 6 July 1825 / App[rove]^d. by the Bar[ons]. of the Exchequer at Gray's / Inn - making the space / between the Judges Trib[unal]. & the Kings Rem[embranacers] / only two feet [_] of this dimensions given

Signed and dated

01/07/1825
July 1^st .. 1825

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, wash, coloured washes including buff, orange, pink and blue, pen, pricked for transfer on wove paper (466 x 688)

Hand

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

Notes

This drawing is annotated in Soane's hand, recording its presentation to the Barons of the Exchequer on 6 July 1825.

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.

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

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.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).