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[476] Record drawing, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, December 1826
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Reference number
SM 53/8/55
Purpose
[476] Record drawing, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, December 1826
Aspect
Exterior perspective of the New Law Courts from the north west, with the elevation to St Margaret's Street Gothicized to correspond with the new façade of the Court of King's Bench and a Record building added to the east of Westminster Hall, unexecuted
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
View of a Design for Gothicizing the exterior of the Building containing / the New Law Courts at Westminster. -
Signed and dated
- 01/12/1826 - 31/12/1826
Dec[embe]r. 1826.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, coloured washes including blue, raw umber, sepia and grey, pen, within single ruled border on laid paper (453 x 281)
Hand
Soane Office, draughtsman
Watermark
W Weatherley / 1822
Notes
The façades of the Record Building and the Court of King's Bench closely follow the elevation shown in SM 53/8/50, except for the increased scale of the merlons. It is closely related to SM 53/8/54, and may well have been a prepatory study for the latter, and the engraved plate.
Level
Drawing
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