Title & Author:

Sir John Soane's Museum / [presented by] Sir John Summerson.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1979.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (22 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Section Through Museum. 1827 -- Numbers 12, 13 & 14 Lincoln's Inn Fields -- Ground Floor Plan Of Numbers 12, 13 & 14 Lincoln's Inn Fields (The Museum Is Outlined In Black) -- Portrait Of Soane Aged 75 By Sir Thomas Lawrence -- Soane Water-Colour Of The Bank Of England -- The Dining-Room & Library Looking Towards Lincoln's Inn Field End -- Dining-Room/Library. Detail -- Dining-Room. Looking Towards Study & Monument Court -- Study. Looking Towards Monument Court -- Dressing-Room. Ceiling Lantern -- Picture Room With Hogarths & Piranesis -- Picture Room With First Panels Open -- Picture Room With Second Panels Open. Overlooking Monk's Court -- Monk's Court Seen From Picture Room -- Monk's Parlour Below Picture Room -- Dome. Looking Towards Colonnade -- Seti's Sarcophagus Seen From Dome -- Breakfast Room -- Breakfast Room. Ceiling Lantern -- Breakfast Room. Detail -- Breakfast Room. Looking Towards Dining-Room.

Summary:

On the first Saturday of every month, the late Sir John Summerson himself used to conduct visitors round Sir John Soane's Museum, the museum over which he lovingly presided as curator for over three decades. This talk is an edited version of one of his guided tours, with photographs specially taken by John Donat, Britain's number one architectural photographer. Sir John Summerson is the author of definitive books on Soane, John Nash, Wren, Georgian London, and architecture in Britain. He was awarded Britain's Royal Gold Medal for services to architecture in 1976. In addition, in Nash's London he discusses Nash's influence on the London we know today.

Subject:

Sir John Soane's Museum.

Added entries:

Summerson, John, 1904-1992, narrator.