Survey of the Palace of Westminster, (Copy) 26 November 1822

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Reference number

SM 37/1/20

Purpose

Survey of the Palace of Westminster, (Copy) 26 November 1822

Aspect

Plan of the Palace of Westminster; (verso) part elevation and profile of a window and rough pencil perspective and plan for an Ionic portico

Scale

bar scale of 2/7 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

labelled: Saint Margarets Street, New Palace Yard, Westminster Hall, Court / of / Chancery, Court / of / Kings / Bench, Old Palace Yard, Court of Requests, Long Gallery, Court, Auditor of Exchequer, House / of / Commons, M^r Hatsells / House, Painted / Chamber, House of Lords, Princes / Cham^r, Garden, Yard, Late Parliament / Stairs, M^r Delavals / House &^c, M^r / Delavals / Garden, Cotton Garden, M^r Hatsell's / Garden, Garden to Auditors House

Signed and dated

26 November 1822
Copied / 26^th Nov / 1822

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash, pricked for transfer on wove paper (353 x 472)

Hand

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

Notes

There is no indication in this plan of Soane's work on the new Royal Entrance to the House of Lords, which was by November 1822 at an advanced stage. The Courts had been removed from Westminster Hall in 1820 so that it could accommodate George IV's coronation banquet. This drawing, then, was probably copied from an earlier original.

On the verso is an elevation of four leaded windows, the bottom part of which has been cut off. At the top of the sheet, in pencil, are two rough designs (in plan and in perspective) for a pedimented Ionic portico that is six columns wide and three columns deep.

Tom Drysdale, October 2014

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Drawing

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