[218] Survey on completion, Court of Chancery, 2 August 1826

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Reference number

SM Vol 61/71

Purpose

[218] Survey on completion, Court of Chancery, 2 August 1826

Aspect

Interior perspective of the Public Corridor immediately adjacent to the Court of Chancery, looking south, as executed

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

View of the Corridor next Westminster Hall, / leading to the Court of Chancery, and Usher's Robing Room / A (erased)

Signed and dated

02/08/1826
Aug[u]^st. 2. 1826.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, coloured washes including raw umber and sepia, within single ruled border on laid paper (281 x 456) mounted on buff sugar paper bound in volume (341 x 532)

Hand

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

Literature

Richardson & Stevens 1999, Cat. No. 205; p. 274, illustrated p. 274.
Wedgwood 1992, p. 37, Fig. 18; illustrated p. 39.

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.

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