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  • image SM Vol 61/50

Reference number

SM Vol 61/50

Purpose

[336] Survey on completion, Court of King's Bench, 7 September 1826

Aspect

Interior perspective of the main (ground) floor of the Court of King's Bench showing the ceiling and skylight from the western end of the Court looking east, as executed

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

View of the Lantern Light in the Centre / of the Ceiling of the Court of King's Bench / No. 3 (erased)

Signed and dated

  • 07/09/1826
    Sep[tembe]r. 7. 1826.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, coloured washes of sepia and blue, within single ruled border on laid paper (284 x 455) mounted on buff sugar paper bound in volume (534 x 340)

Hand

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

Notes

Though incomplete, that the arches below the cornice have incised Greek key on their soffits, and further arches behind, makes clear that this is the east wall of the Court (compare SM Vol 61/47).

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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