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  • image SM 53/8/49v

Reference number

SM 53/8/49v

Purpose

[314] Preliminary record drawing, Court of King's Bench, c early August 1826

Aspect

Rough section through the Court of King's Bench and adjacent offices looking south, as executed, with rough elevation of the part of the north façade of Westminster Hall, as extant

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Court of K[ing's Bench]. / Tri[bunal] / R[etiring Room]

Signed and dated

  • c August 1826
    dated in accordance with SM 53/3/3

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (475 x 294)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Notes

A more worked-up section through the same Court is shown in SM 53/3/3, for which drawing this may have served as a preliminary study.

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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