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  • image SM 53/8/37

Reference number

SM 53/8/37

Purpose

[397] Alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, 7 April 1824

Aspect

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

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 07/04/1824
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Medium and dimensions

Pencil, coloured washes including raw sienna, sepia and Payne's grey, on wove paper (592 x 426)

Hand

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

Watermark

Weatherley & Lane / 1818

Notes

The Court of King's Bench elevation is of five bays with projecting corner bays and no attic story. The secondary openings between the Venetian windows (shown in SM 53/8/36) have been erased and the curved corners omitted. An entrance in the linking range with Westminster Hall apeears to have been erased.

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.

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk