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[12-13] Design 'No 2' (in Soane's hand) in which the Court of Requests is made into a new House of Lords and copy dated 25 September 1794 (2)
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Reference number
SM (12) 36/4/34 (13) 36/4/31
Purpose
[12-13] Design 'No 2' (in Soane's hand) in which the Court of Requests is made into a new House of Lords and copy dated 25 September 1794 (2)
Aspect
12 Plan of ground floor
13 Plan of ground floor, neat copy of drawing 12
Scale
(12-13) bar scales of 1/10 of 1 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
(12) No2, In this Drawing the Court of Requests is likewise / made into a House of Lords, labelled: The River Thames, Abingdon Street, Old Palace Yard, rooms labelled: The Kings Entrance, The / Kings Robing Room, Doorkeeper (twice), Lord Great / Chamberlain, Passage, The / Prince of Wales, anti / Room, Assistant / Clerk of / Parliament, Anti, Clerk / of / Parliament, Lobby (twice), The House of Lords, Lobby for / Witnesses / attending the / House, Council / attending / the House, The Lords' Entrance, Waiting Room, anti Room, Witnesses, Court, Passage (twice), Black Rod, Serjeant / at / Arms, The Painted Chamber / & / Conferences, Attendants / on the / Lords, The / Duke of Gloucester / & the / Rest of the / Royal Family, Bishops, Archbishops and Earl Marshall
(13) labelled as drawing 12
Signed and dated
- (13) (pencil) Copy Sepr 25 94
Medium and dimensions
(12) Pen, sepia, light red, black and burnt umber washes, pricked for transfer with quadruple-ruled and black wash border on laid paper (641 x 535) (13) pen, sepia, light red, black, yellow, blue and green washes, partly pricked for transfer on laid paper (737 x 535)
Hand
(12) Soane, Thomas Jeans (c.1775-1866, pupil August 1792 - 25 August 1797) (13) Frederick Meyer (1775-?, pupil April 1791-1796)
Notes
As Soane notes this design has the Court of Requests as the new House of Lords and, as well, the old House of Lords is again used as a Robing Room and Attendants Room for the Lords. More of the existing buildings are retained, that is, the Prince's Chamber, four adjacent offices east of the old House of Lords and a room labeled 'Lord Chancellor'. The eight-column portico of drawings 10-11 has gone, and on the west side, the twin entrances are replaced by an important looking King's Entrance in the centre that has a porte-cochère fronting a projecting stepped lobby leading to a hall with two ranges of steps. The Robing Room is immediately to the left and the royal route is a short one.
S. Sawyer, 'Soane at Westminster'. PhD thesis, Columbia University, 1999, pp. 165-6 puts drawings 12 and 13 (with drawings 3 and 22) as scheme 'C' in Soane's sequence of designs for the House of Lords. The final design (a 'synthesis of two planning approaches' taken from 'A1' to 'A6') includes drawing 13 (Sawyer, p. 180).
S. Sawyer, 'Soane at Westminster'. PhD thesis, Columbia University, 1999, pp. 165-6 puts drawings 12 and 13 (with drawings 3 and 22) as scheme 'C' in Soane's sequence of designs for the House of Lords. The final design (a 'synthesis of two planning approaches' taken from 'A1' to 'A6') includes drawing 13 (Sawyer, p. 180).
Level
Drawing
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