ABSTRACT
Commanding this display are two ‘composite views’ – companion pieces produced two years apart, one representing Soane’s built works, and the other his unrealised ambitions. These two drawings present a compendium of Soane’s imaginative output and reflect his lifelong efforts to elucidate, justify and promote his own distinctive and intensely personal brand of architecture. They also tell of a collaboration and friendship that was to revolutionise the public presentation of architecture, for the drawings were executed by Joseph Michael Gandy, England’s greatest architectural artist, whose genius was discovered and nurtured by Soane.
