[35] Traced copy of a design for the Stone Building and a new Parliament House

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Reference number

SM 36/2/24

Purpose

[35] Traced copy of a design for the Stone Building and a new Parliament House

Aspect

General site plan

Inscribed

labelled: (pencil) Design for New Law Courts adjoining Westminster Hall, The indian ink tint is the new part / distinguished from the old, The ------ (illegible) Part to ---- (illegible), Thames, [Audit]ors / [Gar]den, Propos'd for a new Exchequer / The old may remain till the new / is built, Westminster Bridge, Exchequer, Passage, Exchequer, Auditors Court, Lord Hallifax, Westminster Hall, Kings / Bench Records, Judges, Chamb^s, Custos / Brevium, Common / Pleas, Common / Pleas / Chamber, Equity / Court, Excheq^r Court, New Palace Yard, Fish / Yard, S^t Margarets Lane

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash on tracing paper, backed with wove paper (553 x 333)

Hand

Soane Office

Notes

Traced copy of drawing [33].

Level

Drawing

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