[451] Alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, 1826

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Reference number

SM Vol 61/73

Purpose

[451] Alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, 1826

Aspect

Exterior view of the New Law Courts from the north west, with the elevation to St Margaret's Street Gothicized to correspond with the new façade of the Court of King's Bench and a Record building added to the east of Westminster Hall

Scale

to a rough scale

Inscribed

View of a Design for Gothicising the Exterior of the New Law Courts at Westminster

Signed and dated

1826
1826.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, coloured washes of blue, raw umber and sepia, within single ruled border on laid paper (467 x 280) mounted on buff sugar paper bound in volume (532 x 339)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Level

Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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