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Reference number

SM Vol 61/46

Purpose

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

Aspect

Interior perspective of the Court of King's Bench from the eastern corner of the south gallery looking west towards the staircase, as executed

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

View in the Side Gallery. &.c, / Court of King's Bench..

Signed and dated

  • 01/09/1826 - 30/09/1826
    Sep[tembe]r. 1826.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, coloured washes including burnt umber, blue and sepia, within Indian red double ruled border on laid paper (278 x 430) mounted on buff sugar paper bound in volume (533 x 342)

Hand

Attributed to Gandy, Joseph Michael (1771--1843), draughtsman
attributed in Richardson & Stevens (1999)

Literature

Stroud 1984, pp. 221 - 225, fig. 202; illustrated on p. 223
Wedgwood 1992, p. 37, fig. 13; illustrated on p. 38
Richardson & Stevens 1999, cat. no. 203; pp. 44, 272, fig. 45, illustrated on p 43

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

John Soane Architect: Master of Space and Light, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 11 September - 3 December 1999; Centro Palladio, Vicenza, April - August 2000; Hôtel de Rohan, Paris, January - April 2001; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, 16 May - 3 September 2001; Real Academia des Bellas Artes, Madrid, October - December 2001

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