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Joseph Michael Gandy ARA (1771 - 1843)

Bird's Eye View of a Design for a Triumphal Bridge (to which the Gold Medal of the Royal Academy was awarded 1776)

c. 1820s

Watercolour on paper

Museum number: P92

Not on display

Curatorial note

Soane office: bird's-eye view of a design for design for a Triumphal Bridge with which John Soane won the Gold Medal for Architecture of the Royal Academy, 1776

This birds-eye view shows Soane's imaginary bridge spanning the Thames well west of Westminster - in the background to the right, on the far bank of the river, are Westminster Abbey and Westminster Hall.


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