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Reference number

SM 53/8/39

Purpose

[406] Alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, 24 April 1824

Aspect

Exterior perspective of the New Law Courts, the New Palace Yard façade from the north west looking south east, unexecuted

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

No. 25

Signed and dated

  • 24/04/1824
    24/4/[18]24

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, coloured washes of sepia, burnt sienna and Payne's grey, pen, within single ruled border on laid paper (584 x 482)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Watermark

Weatherley & Lane / 1818

Notes

This is a variant treatment where no buildings shown to the east of Westminster Hall. The drawing is projected from a very low vantage point, making clear the fall of the gradiant towards the Thames. More of the New Law Court's elevation to St Margaret's Street is shown compared to other variant schemes. The façade to New Palace Yard is of five bays with square corners and a recessed attic, with alternating Venetian and rectangular windows on its principal floor.

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