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Design for new committee rooms and a new House of Lords, 9 June 1825
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- Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
Reference number
SM 51/3/41
Purpose
Design for new committee rooms and a new House of Lords, 9 June 1825
Aspect
Part site plan
Scale
bar scale of 7/20 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
labelled (pencil): Court (twice) and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 9 June 1825
(pencil) June 9th
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, sepia, pink and blue washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (365 x 545)
Hand
Soane Office
Watermark
Smith & Allnutt 1820
Notes
In the first weeks of June 1825 the planning of the new committee rooms is interrupted by a series of designs for an entirely new House of Lords aligned to the Painted Chamber, with committee rooms on either side and an octastyle portico facing the river. The throne is at the end of the chamber nearest the river. The river frontage is approximately 205 feet wide. Soane had not been commissioned to design a new House of Lords but in the course of designing new Committee Rooms he attempted to revive the designs for a river-facing House of Lords which he had first envisaged some 30 years earlier (q.v.).
Level
Drawing
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