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  • image SM 53/5/11

Reference number

SM 53/5/11

Purpose

[282] Preliminary survey on completion, Court of Exchequer, 15-22 March 1826

Aspect

Plan of the main floor of the Court of Exchequer, including the Public Corridor and entrance from Westminster Hall, with furnishings, as executed

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Court of Exchequer - / Attorneys (x 2) / Carpeted / Closet (x 2) / Counsel (x 2) / Cryer / desk / door / Flat (x 2) / Flat Desk / Flat Seat (x 2) / Judges / Jury / Kings Counsel / Kings Remembrancer / Lord Treasurer / No Plinth / Pannelled / with three beads / Postmaster / Seat (x 2) / Students / Submaster / Table (x 2) / Woodline dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 15/03/1826-22/03/1826
    March 1826
    dated in accordance with corresponding entries in the Day Books

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, on wove paper (283 x 214)

Hand

Stephen Burchell (1806 - c.1843), draughtsman
The Day Book entries for the period from 15 March - 22 March 1826 record six entries when Stephen Burchell was making sketches of the New Law Courts at Westminster.

Verso

see separate entry for SM 53/5/11v

Watermark

Smith & Allnutt / 1823

Notes

The sheet is numbered "11" in red pen at the recto top right-hand corner, and appears to have been detached from a bound volume.

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