#Sir John Soane's Museum

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View of the Breakfast Parlour at 12 Lincoln's Inn Fields

Sir John Soane

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sir john soane's museum, london, 2023.

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Oh I’ve been at that house about a year ago! With my dearest @mis-tral <3

Antiques at Home, 1989

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Sir John Soane Museum

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Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 2024. © Moon and Serpent

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Sir John Soane's Museum

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Napoleon wall!

A wall dedicated to “Napoleonica” at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London. Despite the war between England and France during the Napoleonic years, Napoleon had many admirers in England. One of them was Sir John Soane. His museum has over 50 publications related to Napoleon, which he collected.

Notably, the painting on the left side of the wall is the earliest seen portrait of Napoleon in England which accurately captured his likeness. The portrait is from 1797. The museum also houses a piece of Napoleon’s hair, and used to hold his pistol, but someone stole it in 1969. The empty case in the middle is where the pistol used to be.

Soane admired the Parisian architecture of Napoleon’s reign. He preferred it to the “laissez faire” attitude to public building in London. He visited Paris in 1814 and this is the map of the city he bought while he was there.

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A bit of antique gloom at Sir John Soane’s Museum yesterday. And a Crapper.

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The Italian Count by Henry Fuseli R.A. at Sir John Soane's Museum in London

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Paper Shadows 🏺🖼️

Frame study from Contrasts: The Buildings of England (1968).

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South - Wandering London

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London, 2023.

Have a pro-tip where to lose your wallet. In exchange for a left-handed Londoner in a suit. No kidding.

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Sir John Soane’s Museum, the Picture Room.

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'Towering Dreams' at Compton Verney, Warwickshire.

A new exhibition has just opened at Compton Verney in Warwickshire: Towering Dreams: Extraordinary Architectural Drawings explores how architects in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries ‘understood the world around them and the ideas and cultures that inspired them’. The majority of the wonderful drawings in the exhibition are on loan from Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, and the…