Print: 'Various designs for Public and Private Buildings 1780-1815' Cork Sir John Soane's impressive Model

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

Bronze wax-cast cowrie shell

and a border of guilloche

in the foreground

Print: 'Various designs for Public and Private Buildings 1780-1815' Cork Sir John Soane's impressive ModelJoseph 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