Scale
bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
General Plan of the New Law Courts at Westminster, on the level of the One Pair Floor. / (as designed) / Westminster Hall. / Room for / Solicitors, / Clients &c. / Upper part / of the / Bail Court. / Area. (x 6) / Upper part of the / Court of Kings Bench. / curtain (x 9) / Staircase / Law Library &c. / Counsel. / Upper part of the / Court of Exchequer. / Upper part of the / Court of Equity. / Retiring Room / for Jury. / Prison / Room. / Secondaries / Upper Part of the / Court of Common Pleas / Court Keeper / Court of Common Pleas / Upper part of the / Vice Chancellors Court. / Upper part of the / Court of Chancery.
Signed and dated
- 01/01/1824 - 31/12/1824
1824
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, wash, coloured washes including buff, pink, ochre and blue and pen within quadruple ruled wash border pricked for transfer on wove paper (621 x 445)
Hand
Soane Office
Verso
Rough plans and elevation in pencil, perhaps for a skylight.
Watermark
J Whatman / 1822
Notes
There are substantial erasures and redrawing for the Court of King's Bench and its adjacent accommodation. The lead roofs beneath this level are indicated in a dark blue; the skylights themselves washed in a grey-blue, and the raised coping between the roofs in buff. The curtains recorded here were intended to be hung as shown in drawings SM Vol 61/48 and SM Vol 61/49.
Level
Drawing
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