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  • image SM Vol 48/37

Reference number

SM Vol 48/37

Purpose

[74] Survey, Court of Exchequer, 24 March 1823

Aspect

Perspective of the main (first) floor and furnishings of the Court of Exchequer from the south-west, with furnishings

Scale

to a rough scale

Inscribed

Court of Exchequer

Signed and dated

  • 24/03/1823
    24th. March 1823.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, on wove paper bound in volume ( 272 x 211)

Hand

Arthur Patrick Mee (1802 - 1868), draughtsman
The Day Book entry for 24 March 1823 notes that Arthur Mee was Making sketches of the old / Courts at Westminster.

Notes

This viewpoint is taken from the floor of the Court of Exchequer and includes only the furnishings, with a suggestion of the adjacent arch in the south wall. A viewpoint from the north gallery is shown in SM Vol 48/33.

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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