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[207] Preliminary design, Court of Chancery, c 8 April 1823
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- Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
Reference number
SM 53/4/80v
Purpose
[207] Preliminary design, Court of Chancery, c 8 April 1823
Aspect
Details of the ornaments for the gallery of the Court of Chancery, including moulding profiles with a demi-palmette and two alternatives for pendant label stops (in pen), almost as executed, with additional compositional studies (in pencil)
Scale
to a rough scale
Inscribed
Wood floor / part of dome / Plan / face of [_]
Signed and dated
- c 08/04/1823
dated in accordance with SM 53/4/80
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, on wove paper (534 x 737)
Hand
SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Notes
This series of preliminary studies focuses upon the gallery floor; the largest study is a section of the latter's cornice, with egg and dart and rope mouldings, along with a demi-palmette. The other sketches explore possible treatments of the pendentives, most with pierced oculi, inverted caps and the characteristic lion mask head stops, which appeared on the archivolt mouldings of the Court's fanlights (see SM P274).
Literature
Sawyer, 1999: p 538, footnote 1588
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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