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[218] Survey on completion, Court of Chancery, 2 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 61/71
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)
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.
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.
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk