[456] Comparative design, New Law Courts, August 1826

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Reference number

SM Vol. 61/74

Purpose

[456] Comparative design, New Law Courts, August 1826

Aspect

Elevation of proposed Record building, Westminster Hall and proposed Gothic façade to the Court of King's Bench from New Palace Yard, looking south, unexecuted

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

View of a Design for Gothicising the Front of the Court of King's Bench (next / New Palace Yard, and for a Corresponding Building to the East of Westminster Hall / to contain Record Offices ^&c.

Signed and dated

01/08/1826 - 31/08/1826
dated in accordance with SM Vol 61/75

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, coloured washes of Payne's grey and raw umber, pen, on laid paper (466 x 282) 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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