Design to render the new buildings in a uniform style, 1825

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  - London: Palace of Westminster: designs for alterations and additions, 1793-1828 (499)
    - London: House of Lords, Palace of Westminster: alterations and additions, 1817-28 (220)
      - New committee rooms and library, 1824-27 (56)
        Designs to render the new buildings in a uniform style, 1825

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Reference number

SM 51/3/6

Purpose

Design to render the new buildings in a uniform style, 1825

Aspect

Bird's-eye perspective of a design to render the buildings connected with the Houses of Lords and Commons of one uniform style of architecture

Inscribed

as above, labelled: Committee Rooms / House of Lords, Painted Chamber, Library, Committee Rooms & / Clerks Office House of Commons, House of Commons, Speaker of the House of Commons, Q^y Wall or Iron Railing

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, sepia, burnt umber, blue and green washes, shaded, with double ruled border on stout wove paper (470 x 693)

Hand

Soane Office

Watermark

Smith & Allnutt 1823

Notes

Similarly to SM 51/3/40, this bird's-eye perspective shows a design for giving the river side of the Palace of Westminster a uniform Gothic appearance. There are differences between this and the other design in the appearance of the Lords and Commons committee rooms - that is, the buildings on the east side of the Palace, designed by Soane - and the Speaker's House, for which Soane made some internal alterations between 1824-26.

This drawing bears a close relation to Plate 29 in Soane's Designs for Public Improvements, 1827, which is a bird's-eye view of 'A design to render the exterior of all the buildings connected with the official residence of the Speaker of the House of Commons & the front of the House of Lords to the northern entrance of Westminster Hall in the same style of architecture'.

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Drawing

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