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Joseph Michael Gandy ARA (1771 - 1843)
Views of the Library, Breakfast Room, Study &c. at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 1822
March 1822
Watercolour on paper
Inscription: [Title]· THE · PLAN · AND · INTERIOR · / · OF · THE · / · GROVND · FLOOR · / OF A / · TOWN · HOUSE · [in red capitals top right above plan]
Inscription: · IOHN · SOANE · ARCHT · [below view of the Monument Court (left)]
Inscription: Dated March MDCCCXXII [1822: on trompe l'oeil turned-over corner of the plan]
Museum number: P86
On display: Picture Room - inside planes (by arrangement or on some pre-booked tours)
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 - not all tours show the inside of all planes.
Curatorial note
Soane office, composite drawing of No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields: plan and 6 perspective views of the exterior and various interiors (Library, Monument Court, Breakfast Room and Study).
Exhib: RA 1822, no.875
Exhib: RA 1822, no.875
Literature
J. Soane, Description, 1832, p.xii
Helen Dorey, 'The Historic Framing and presentation of watercolours, drawings and prints at Sir John's Museum', in ed. Nancy Bell, Historic Framing and Presentation of Watercolours and Prints, Proceedings of the Conference of the Institute of Paper Conservation June 1996, pp. 20-31
Helen Dorey, 'The Historic Framing and presentation of watercolours, drawings and prints at Sir John's Museum', in ed. Nancy Bell, Historic Framing and Presentation of Watercolours and Prints, Proceedings of the Conference of the Institute of Paper Conservation June 1996, pp. 20-31
Exhibition history
The Soanes at Home: A Day in the Life of Regency London, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 24 October 1997 - 29 February 1998
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
In the Temple of the Self: The Artist's Residence as a Total Work of Art. Europe and America 1800-1948, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 21 November 2013 - 2 March 2014
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
In the Temple of the Self: The Artist's Residence as a Total Work of Art. Europe and America 1800-1948, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 21 November 2013 - 2 March 2014
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