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  • image SM Vol 61/44

Reference number

SM Vol 61/44

Purpose

[339] Survey on completion, Court of King's Bench, 12 September 1826

Aspect

Interior perspective of the main (ground) floor of the Court of King's Bench from the west wall behind the tribunal looking east, as executed

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

View of the Court of King's Bench / from the Tribunal.

Signed and dated

  • 12/09/1826
    12th. Sep[tembe]r. 1826.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, coloured washes including sepia, raw umber and crimson, within Indian red double ruled border on laid paper (285 x 454) mounted on buff sugar paper (342 x 532)

Hand

Probably Joseph Michael Gandy ARA (1771 - 1843), draughtsman

Notes

The treatment of the lower level of the walls should be contrasted with the variant treatments shown in SM Vol 61/45. Both drawings may have served as preliminary studies for the more fully realised SM P281.

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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