[152] Duplicate presentation drawing, New Law Courts, 12 April 1824

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  - London: Palace of Westminster: The New Law Courts, surveys and designs, 1820-32 (507)
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Reference number

SM 53/8/5

Purpose

[152] Duplicate presentation drawing, New Law Courts, 12 April 1824

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

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

C[harles]. J[ames]. R[ichardson]: Copied / Lincolns Inn Fields -

Signed and dated

12/04/1824
April 1^2th 1824.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, coloured washes including raw sienna, Payne's grey and sepia, pen, pricked for transfer on wove paper (476 x 339) mounted on wove paper within triple ruled border (521 x 356)

Hand

Richardson, Charles James (1806--1871), draughtsman
The Day Book entry for 12 April 1824 notes that Charles Richardson was Drawing a View of the / front of the Courts of / Law.

Notes

This drawing is a copy of SM 53/8/2 - possibly executed a training exercise set for Charles Richardson. This view was subsequently engraved as Plate Xc in Soane's Public and Private Buildings.

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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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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