Survey of the Palace of Westminster

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Office of Works
  - London: Palace of Westminster: designs for alterations and additions, 1793-1828 (499)
    - Additional drawings, surveys etc. (44)
      - Surveys of the old Palace of Westminster (13)

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Reference number

SM 36/2/35

Purpose

Survey of the Palace of Westminster

Aspect

Part plan of the Palace of Westminster (buildings to the south of Westminster Hall) with outline Henry VII's Chapel

Scale

bar scale of 7/10 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

labelled (pencil): Alice's / Coffee House, House (3 times), Ship / Alehouse, Coffee House, Waghorn's, Court of Requests, Long Gallery, Engrosing (sic) / Office, Clerk of Fees / Office, Speaker's Garden, Vestibule, M^r Hatsell, Store house, Shed, Cotton Garden, Painted Chamber, Jib Door, Black Rod, Committee Room, Passage, House of Lords, Princes Chamber, Staircase, Passage, Archbishops / Room, Bishops / Room, Earl Marshall, Clerks of Parliament, L^d Chancellors / Attendants, Lord Chancellor's / Room, Garden, Store house, M^r Delaval, Masons Yard, (in a later hand) F / Drawer 67 / Case 1 opposite E / under Students / Room / Inventory D 161; (verso, in a later hand, pencil) Case 1 (opposite E under Students Room) / Drawer 67 / C 4 Sheets / Inventory D p161

Medium and dimensions

Pencil and pen, pricked for transfer on two sheets of wove paper, affixed, with two fold marks (1210 x 698)

Hand

Soane Office

Notes

The buildings to the south of Westminster Hall, including the Court of Requests, the Painted Chamber and the House of Lords, are the same in this plan as they are in a plan reproduced in The History of the King's Works, VI, fig. 19, dated 1793.

Tom Drysdale, October 2014

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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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