Print: 'Various designs for Public and Private Buildings 1780-1815' Cork By Courtesy of the Trustees

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

He is evidently spending his father's hoarded wealth recklessly

Also including images of the exhibition works in situ

such models are even more varied in their purposes and materials than their full-scale counterparts

Bronze wax-cast cowrie shell

Print: 'Various designs for Public and Private Buildings 1780-1815' Cork By Courtesy of the TrusteesJoseph 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