Print: 'Various designs for Public and Private Buildings 1780-1815' Cork Bronze wax-cast cowrie shell

Bronze wax-cast cowrie shell

By Courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John Soane's Museum

and exhibition galleries are yours to explore as you wander sunlit corridors lined by Sir John Soane’s vast collection including works by Canaletto

Sir John Soane's impressive Model Room has been re-opened to the public

Print: 'Various designs for Public and Private Buildings 1780-1815' Cork Bronze wax-cast cowrie shellJoseph Michael Gandy's watercolour envisages Soane's architectural commissions undertaken from 1780 to 1815 as a fantastical cityscape. Along with JMW Turner, another son of Romanticism with whom Soane shared a great collaborative friendship, Joseph Michael Gandy (1771 1843) was a draughtsman and architect in his own right who brought Soanes architectural vision to life through a myriad of grand watercolours. Like Soane, Gandy was also humbly born and