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Design for new committee rooms and a new House of Lords, 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 51/3/42
Purpose
Design for new committee rooms and a new House of Lords, June 1825
Aspect
Part site plan
Scale
bar scale of 7/20 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
labelled: The New House / of Lords, The New Gallery, New Committee / Room, The Painted Chamber, The House of Lords
Signed and dated
- June 1825
June 1825
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia, pink and blue washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (324 x 561)
Hand
Soane Office
Notes
In this variant design for a new House of Lords, Soane gives the new building a portico on a segmental plan. The interior is also arranged slightly differently, although with the same number of rooms as in SM 51/3/41. 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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