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This record of the lanterns and skylights appear to have served as a training exercise for one of Soane’s pupils; drawing from on-site observation. These drawings were clearly produced at speed, never worked up with wash and pen and lack any characteristic features to enable identification. However, they cannot be regarded as the work of an experienced hand. The Day Book entries for May 1824 record that Stephen Burchell, and Charles Richardson intermittently, were engaged in drawings associated with the Law Courts, though no entries had be directly associated with this survey. On the grounds of numerical frequency, they are more likely to be by Burchell than Richardson.
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
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Contents of Lanterns and Skylights Survey, May 1824 (3)
- [170] Preliminary survey on completion, New Law Courts, May 1824
- [171] Preliminary survey on completion, New Law Courts, May 1824
- [172] Preliminary survey on completion, New Law Courts, May 1824