Design for the galleries (executed)

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  - London: Palace of Westminster: designs for alterations and additions, 1793-1828 (499)
    - London: House of Lords, Palace of Westminster: alterations and additions, 1817-28 (220)
      - Alterations to the House of Lords to increase accommodation for the trial of Queen Caroline, 1820 (16)
        Survey drawing and designs for galleries, July 1820

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Reference number

SM 51/3/56

Purpose

Design for the galleries (executed)

Aspect

Plan of Gallery N^o 1

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, labelled (in Soane's hand): Each Gallery / contains 51 seats; benches labelled (in pencil): 7 (5 times), 8 (twice)

Signed and dated

25 July 1820
John Soane / 25^th July 1820

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and pink washes, pricked for transfer with double ruled and sepia wash border on wove paper (481 x 305)

Hand

Charles Edward Papendiek (1801 - 1835)
Pupil January 1818 - March 1824.

Watermark

J Whatman 1820

Notes

SM 51/3/56 corresponds with 'Plan No 1' (SM 51/3/60) - that is, the galleries are accessed by staircases starting at the ends of the benches. Each gallery has enough seating for 51 people. Together with the benches which provide space for 188 peers, this brings the total capacity of the House to 290.

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Drawing

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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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