England and Rome: Piranesi, Adam and Chambers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78)

  Etching depicting Piranesi and Robert Adam as Roman heroes on a coin

Fanastical reconstruction of a Mausoleum in Ancient Rome

   Plate from the Carceri, or Prison series

Robert Adam (1728-92)

Syon House, Middlesex, remodelled 1762-9 for the Duke of Northumberland

  Exterior the house which was originally a medieval nunnery

   Plan showing the ambitious and unexecuted central rotonda

    Entrance hall  Ante Room   Long Gallery

Home House, Portman Square, London (1774-8)

Plan of first and second floors, and of site

  Section and view of the dramatic central staircase Design for Etruscan room

The Adelphi development, London (1768-74)

  View of the Adelphi development from the Thames, showing how the main terrace is raised high above the noise and smell of the river on an arcade of warehouses.

   Plan of the development, sited between the Strand and the Thames

    View of John Adam Street, with the entrance to the Royal Society of Arts

  Royal Society of Arts, London; note the uncanonical combination of an Ionic order with a Doric triglyph frieze.

Sir William Chambers (1723-96)

Design for a Mausoleum for the Prince of Wales

Somerset House, London, (1776-96)

View from the Thames

Strand street facade

  Courtyard facade