784 pages in two volumes, hardback, 330 x 245 mm, over 1000 illustrations
PRICE: £45.00
ISBN: 9 781898 592 13 6
In the library of Sir John Soane's remarkable house at 13, Lincoln's Inn Fields, several volumes of Italian architectural drawings of the 16th and 17th centuries have remained until today one of London's hidden treasures. They have never been catalogued before in detail.
Every drawing in this comprehensive catalogue raisonné is illustrated and accompanied by detailed descriptions of comparative material. Many of the volumes were acquired from the Robert Adam Sale in 1818, and the drawings reflect the taste of two of Britain's most distinguished architects, Adam and Soane, as well as demonstrating the study of Antique and Renaissance buildings and engineering theory that so preoccupied architects trained in the Academies of Art. The drawings are bound in the following albums: the North Italian Album, Francesco di Giorgio's treatise, Trajan's Column, Vasari Album and volumes of drawings by Giovanni Battista Montano.
This exhibition and catalogue celebrates the most gifted, inventive and eccentric amateurs of the 18th and early 19th centuries with a selection of drawings, engravings and portraits gathered from Soane's collection and other museums, archives and private houses around the country. More
This study examines the hundreds of secular and religious buildings, urban residential and commercial foundations, and public monuments commissioned in Lucknow and Oudh between 1722 and 1856 by the fabulously rich Nawabs of Oudh and their Court, the English East India Company, and others. More
The castle-style designs and picturesque landscape fantasies of Robert Adam are a much negelected aspect of his work. These paintings and sketches give a vivid scense of the beauty and allure of the landscapes and architecturally by which Adam was romantically fascinated, and which he recreated in some of his most significant commissions - or else on paper. More
Although the life of George Scharf has not been well-documented, he has left a remarkable legacy of drawings, watercolours and lithographs, which, in a most vivid and detailed manner, describe the life of London in the first half of the 19th Century. In many ways, his work can be compared to that of other great chronicler of early Victorian London – Charles Dickens. The characters that populate The Pickwick Papers or Little Dorrit can all be glimpsed in Scharf’s sketches and prints. More
This second publication in the series of small picture books on individual works of art in Sir John Soane's Museum features the anonymous North Italian Album, a unique work of the Italian Renaissance - 68 highly coloured designs on vellum for architecture, furniture, stage sets and decorative objects. More