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  • image SM Vol 48/45

Reference number

SM Vol 48/45

Purpose

[56] Survey, Court of Common Pleas, 12 April 1823

Aspect

Detail plan and elevations of the main cornice, impost moulding, soffit and finial of the main (first) floor of the Court of Common Pleas

Scale

to a rough scale

Inscribed

Soffite of Octagon in the / Court of Common Pleas / A Cornice running round the / Court of Common Pleas. / B Cornice in the / Court of Common Pleas. / 1 2 3 4 5 / Ornament above the Judges / in the Court of Common Pleas. dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 12/04/1823
    dated in accordance with SM Vol 48/46

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, on wove paper bound in volume (272 x 211)

Hand

Arthur Patrick Mee (1802 - 1868), draughtsman
The Day Book entry 12 April 1823 notes that Arthur Mee was Sketching at the new Courts at / Westminster.

Notes

The section is taken looking to the south, with Westminster Hall to the left. In the inscription details A and B are given on SM Vol 48/45. Details C and D-A are given on SM Vol 48/47.

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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