[150] Presentation drawing, New Law Courts, before 27 July 1821

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - London: Palace of Westminster: The New Law Courts, surveys and designs, 1820-32 (507)
    - New Law Courts - First Scheme, 1820-26 (13)

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Reference number

SM 53/8/2

Purpose

[150] Presentation drawing, New Law Courts, before 27 July 1821

Aspect

Exterior perspective of the New Law Courts and Westminster Hall from the corner of St Margaret's Street and New Palace Yard, looking south east, unexecuted

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

A / B / At the Treasury / with Col[onel]. Stephenson, Proposed to make this part correspond with B - app[rove]^d-

Signed and dated

before 27/07/1821
27 July 1821

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, coloured washes including raw umber, Payne's grey and sepia, pen, within quadruple ruled sepia and wash border pricked for transfer on wove paper (489 x 365)

Hand

Sir John Soane RA (1753 - 1837), architect
Soane Office, draughtsman

Notes

The annotation recording the meeting with Colonel Stephenson is in Soane's hand. This view was subsequently engraved as Plate Xc in Soane's Public and Private Buildings.

Literature

Wedgwood, 1992: p. 32, fig. 4; illustrated on p. 33
Sawyer, 1999: p. 505, footnote 1484

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.

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