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Model for the lantern over the Court of Common Pleas, Law Courts, Westminster, London (designed by Sir John Soane)
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SM M1352. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Lewis Bush
Model for the lantern over the Court of Common Pleas, Law Courts, Westminster, London (designed by Sir John Soane)
Wood
Height: 13cm
Width: 25.3cm
Depth: 25.3cm
Width: 25.3cm
Depth: 25.3cm
Museum number: M1352
On display: Drawing Office - also known as the Students Room (pre-booked tours only)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
For tours https://www.soane.org/your-visit
Curatorial note
This is one of two small models visible projecting below the west ceiling beam in J.M. Gandy's 1822 watercolour view of Soane's upper Drawing Office at 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields (SM P113). When the Office was restored in 2022-23 and it came to putting this model back in its original position there, as shown by Gandy, it was able to be hung straight back on its original fixings, still in the beam despite its absence for many decades.
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