<p>This book of essays is published to coincide with an exhibition of the same title at Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London (October 23, 2015–March 26, 2016) commemorating the 200th anniversary of Soane's beloved wife Eliza's death on November 22, 1815. Its relevance to Soane studies, is, however, much broader, with essays shedding new light on the architecture of legacy in Sir John Soane's Museum; Soane's preoccupation with memorialization as revealed in the design process for the Soane family tomb; the legacy of his drawings collection; and Soane's attempt shortly before his death to sustain future interest in his collections by creating a series of time capsules. The essays, written by the curatorial team at Sir John Soane's Museum, are accompanied by 39 illustrations in full color, some of them published for the first time.</p>

Death and Memory: Soane and the Architecture of Legacy

Arts & Photography

Palmer, Susan

Sands, Frances

Dorey, Helen

Drysdale, Tom

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Pimpernel Press

<p><div>Sir John Soane (1753-1837) was a highly literary architect, who appears to have valued Shakespeare for the architectural pictures he conjured up, and also as a moral teacher. He had a deep knowledge of Shakespeare's work, quoting (and misquoting) it often, notably in his Royal Academy lectures. His fascination with Shakespeare is evident both in his library and in the Shakespearian references throughout his house-museum, the most obvious being the Shakespeare Recess, a shrine to the bard on the staircase. The four essays in this volume look at the influence of Shakespeare on Soane's architecture, against the wider background of the 18th-century Shakespearean revival; at Soane as a "bardolator" and bibliophile and at contemporary performance and theater-going, with a particular focus on the plays seen by Soane and his wife Eliza. The essays are illustrated by a number of illustrations in full color, the majority drawn from Soane's own collection. This book was published to coincide with an exhibition with the same title shown at Sir John Soane's Museum as part of the nationwide commemoration of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare in 2016.</div></p>

The Cloud-Capped Towers: Shakespeare in Soane’s Architectural Imagination

Literature & Fiction

Shell, Alison

Leary, Emmeline

Coane, Stephanie

Dramas & Plays

The iconic eighteenth-century architect Robert Adam was based in London for more than half of his life and made more designs for this one city than anywhere else in the world. This book reviews a wide variety of his designs for London, highlighting lesser-known buildings as well as familiar ones. Each of Adam’s projects explored in this book is plotted on Horwood’s map of London (1792-99), enabling the reader to recognise Adam’s work as they move around the city, as well as to envisage London as if more of his ingenious designs had been executed or survived demolition.Table of ContentsForewordMap of LondonIntroductionWhitehallWestminster Abbey – funerary monumentsNorthumberland House, StrandThe AdelphiTheatre Royal, Drury LaneCharing CrossKing’s Bench Prison, SouthwarkLloyd’s Coffee House, CornhillAldersgate StreetLincoln’s InnSouthampton RowSoho SquareCharlotte StreetMansfield Street and New Cavendish StreetPortland PlaceClerk House, Duchess StreetChandos House, Queen Anne StreetPortman SquareGrosvenor SquareHill StreetBerkeley SquareCurzon StreetHertford StreetLock Hospital, Grosvenor PlaceBuckingham HousePiccadillyDeputy Ranger’s Lodge, Green ParkArlington StreetDover StreetPall MallHaymarket Opera HouseSt James’s Square

Robert Adam’s London

History

Europe

Archaeopress Archaeology

<p>A visual, large-format compilation of some the finest architectural drawings from Sir John Soane's extensive collection.<br />
Architectural Drawings casts light on the magnificent architectural drawings of neo-classical architect, teacher and collector, Sir John Soane that are otherwise concealed in archives. This book, featuring artworks handpicked from what was probably the first comprehensive collection of architectural drawings in the world, numbering 30,000 at the time of his death in 1837, celebrates a life spent procuring curiosities. <br />
The collection encompasses the hands of Montano, Thorpe, Wren, Talman, Hawksmoor, Vanbrugh, Gibbs, Kent, Chambers, Adam, Clérisseau, Pêcheux, Wyatt, Playfair, Nash and, of course, Soane himself. The quality of Soane’s collection of drawings is scarcely paralleled elsewhere and on account of their fragility, these items are infrequently seen by the public. This innovative book draws together the most exquisite and important works from the collection for the first time, showing the extraordinary connoisseurship of Sir John Soane while also exploring what drove Soane to amass such a collection and the provenance of his various significant acquisitions.<br />
This book illustrates the story of Soane as a collector of architectural drawings, but a story which is not normally available to the public, and will provide a sumptuous opportunity to peruse some of the finest architectural drawings in existence.</p>

Architectural Drawings: Hidden Masterpieces from Sir John Soane's Museum

History & Criticism

Batsford

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