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[251] Survey on completion, Vice-Chancellor's Court, 16 August 1826
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- Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
Reference number
SM Vol 61/66
Purpose
[251] Survey on completion, Vice-Chancellor's Court, 16 August 1826
Aspect
Interior perspective of the ceiling and lantern of the Vice Chancellor's Court looking either west or east, as executed
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
View of the Lantern Light in the centre / of the ceiling in the Vice-Chancellor's Court./ No. 19 (erased)
Signed and dated
- 16/08/1826
16 August. 1826.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, colour washes including blue, raw umber and sepia, within single ruled border on laid paper (284 x 454) mounted on buff sugar paper bound in volume (339 x 534)
Hand
Probably Joseph Michael Gandy ARA (1771 - 1843), draughtsman
Notes
The lantern's plan was a regular square, set over a Court room which was an oblong, slightly longer than its breadth. To accommodate this, the ceiling's cove at the Court's narrower ends (east and west) rose to an additional panel, bordered by a raised moulding, on opposite sides of the lantern's lintels.
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