[415] Alternative design, Westminster Hall ansd New Law Courts, 29 May 1824

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Office of Works
  - London: Palace of Westminster: The New Law Courts, surveys and designs, 1820-32 (507)
    - New Law Courts - Second Scheme, 1821-29 (345)
      - Northern Range - Court of King's Bench, 1823-29 (207)
        Select Committee Revisions, 1824-29 (79)
        Alternative Number Four: Forward Block, April-June 1824 (27)

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Reference number

SM 53/8/35

Purpose

[415] Alternative design, Westminster Hall ansd New Law Courts, 29 May 1824

Aspect

Exterior perspective of the Court of Kings Bench and Westminster Hall from the north east looking south west, unexecuted

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

View of a Design for the exterior of the New Court of Kings Bench &^c.

Signed and dated

29/05/1824
29^th. May. 1824

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, coloured washes of raw sienna, sepia and Payne's grey, pen, on wove paper (540 x 419)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman
in the same hand as SM 53/3/34 - 37.

Watermark

Weatherley & Lane / 1818

Notes

In this variant, which develops the proposal shown in SM 53/8/34, the corners are carried up to the height of the recessed attic, creating a greater sense of sculptured mass. The three rectangular windows on the Court's north façade show signs of erasure and redrawing.

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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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