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Model for the Law Courts, London, Court of Common Pleas, lantern light (designed by Sir John Soane)
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SM M1454. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Lewis Bush
Model for the Law Courts, London, Court of Common Pleas, lantern light (designed by Sir John Soane)
Plaster
Height: 13cm
Width: 19cm
Depth: 19cm
Width: 19cm
Depth: 19cm
Museum number: M1454
On display: Drawing Office - also known as the Students Room (pre-booked tours only)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
For tours https://www.soane.org/your-visit
Curatorial note
Although the 1837 inventory gives this as for the lantern of Common Pleas, it bears little resemblance to the executed design. It could equally well have served as a ‘notional’ model for the lanterns of several other courts such as King’s Bench or the Exchequer.
Exhibition history
John Soane Architect: Master of Space and Light, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 11 September - 3 December 1999; Centro Palladio, Vicenza, April - August 2000; Hôtel de Rohan, Paris, January - April 2001; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, 16 May - 3 September 2001; Real Academia des Bellas Artes, Madrid, October - December 2001
Associated items
SM Vol 61/63, same scheme
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