Bibliography
This bibliography covers the Museum and its contents with a short
final section listing major works on other Soane buildings.
INDEX
THE MUSEUM
THE COLLECTIONS:
WORKS ON SIR JOHN SOANE AND HIS ARCHITECTURE:
THE MUSEUM
The Union of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, John Britton,
1827
Description of the Residence of Sir John Soane, Architect, London
1830, 1832, 1835 [a French edition was also produced in 1835]
Memoirs of the Professional Life of an Architect between the years
1768 and 1835 written by Himself Privately printed, London 1835
A New Description of Sir John Soane’s Museum (London 1955,
1966, 1969, 1972, 1977, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1991, 2001)
A Short Description of Sir John Soane's Museum (1984 and subsequent
regular revisions)
Summerson, John
‘Change, Decay and the Soane Museum’, Architectural
Association Journal, October 1949, pp.50-3
Kirklington, James
'The Soanian Sonnet', Interiors, April 1982
Summerson, John
‘ The Union of the Arts’, Lotus International,
35, 1982 II
Lorch, Richard
‘The Architectural Order of Sir John Soane’s House’,
International Architect, vol.2, no.9, 1982, pp.43-48
Feinberg, Susan G.
‘The Genesis of Sir John Soane’s Museum Idea: 1801-1810',
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 43, October
1984, pp. 225-37
Trechsel, Ilse
'Das Soane Haus in London', Kunstler Hauser (ed. Eduard
Huttinger), Zurich and Munich c. 1984
Gerosa, Mario
'Le Stanza dell'Anima...., Sir John Soane's Museum', Bell'Europa,
August 1984
Thornton, Peter
‘Lit up with Gorgeous Hues’, Country Life, 19 December
1985
Watkin, D.
'Un Labyrinthe "pittoresque"', Magazine Beaux Arts,
France 1985
Bexte, Peter
'Das Museum eines Einsamen Mannes', Frankfurter Allgemeine
Magazin, January 1986
Millenson, Susan Feinberg
Sir John Soane’s Museum, Ann Arbour 1987
Thornton, Peter
‘An Architectural Kaleidoscope: Sir John Soane’s Museum
in London’, The Magazine Antiques, New York, January 1987
Fuchs, Rudi
'Het museum is green verzameling witte wanden: Het pleidooi meer
draamtische museum architectuur', Museumarchitectur, 1987
Thomas Hine
'The Gallery without end: British Architect Sir John Soane's
Eccentric Legacy', Almanac, USA, 1988
'Antico postmoderno: Il gusto bizzarro di Sir John Soane considerato
il "padre" degli architetti ingelsi', Architectural Digest
(Italian and London editions) 1988
Thornton, Peter
'Colour in Soane's House', Pa Klassisk Grund: Meddelelser
fra Thorwaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, 1989
Richardson, Margaret
‘Model Architecture’, Country Life, 21 September
1989
Thornton, Peter
‘The Soane as it was’, pp. 228-232 in Sir John
Soane’s Museum; A Special Issue of Apollo, Apollo vol.81, April
1990
Kräftner, Johann
'Versteinerte leidenschaft: Sir John Soane's Haus In London',
Parnass, April 1990
Thornton, Peter and Dorey, Helen
A Miscellany of Objects from Sir John Soane’s Museum,
London, 1992
Jackson, Anthony
‘The Facade of Sir John Soane’s Museum: a Study in
Contextualism’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians,
vol.51, December 1992, pp.417-29
Willmert, Todd
'Heating Methods & their impact on Soane's work: Lincoln's
Inn Fields and Dulwich Picture Gallery', Journal of the Society
of Architectural Historians (USA) March 1993
Ernst, Wolfgang
'Frames at work: Museological Imagination and Historical discourse
in Neoclassical Britain', Art Bulletin, 1993
Buzas, Stefan
Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, Tubingen/Berlin, 1994
Dorey, Helen
'Das Haus des Architekten John Soane in London nach der Renovierung',
Deutsche Bauzeitung 1994
Dorey, Helen
‘Sir John Soane’s Courtyard Gardens at Lincoln’s Inn
Fields’ The London Gardener, 1999-2000
Elsner, John
'A Collector's Model of Desire: The House and Museum of Sir John
Soane', The Cultures of Collecting (ed. John Elsner and Roger Cardinal),
1994
Molok, Nick
'The Soane Museum: Architecture and voyage', published in
Russian in World's Architecture 5, Moscow, 1996
Furjan, Helene
'The Specular Spectacle of the house of the Collector', Assemblage
34, 1997
de Maat, Anneke
'Sir John Soane's Museum: de Poëzie van de Architectuur',
Vernissage (Holland), October 1997
Palmer, Susan
The Soanes at Home: Domestic Life at Lincoln’s Inn Fields,
London 1998
Royal Academy exhibition Catalogue, MaryAnne Stevens & Margaret
Richardson (eds.)
John Soane Architect: Master of Space and Light, Royal Academy
Publications, 1999
Dorey, Helen (ed.)
Crude Hints towards an History of my House ..., edition of
the 1812 manuscript written by John Soane
with introductory essay and notes. In exhibition catalogue Visions
of Ruin, Sir John Soane's Museum, 1999
THE COLLECTIONS
Egyptian and Greek and Roman Antiquities
Michaelis, Adolf
Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, (trans. C.A.M. Fennell), Cambridge
1882
Capart, J.
Short note on statuette of Ma in Sir John Soane's Museum, PBSA 29,
1907
Wallis Budge, E.A.
An Account of the Sarcopahgus of Seti I King of Egypt, BC 1370,
Sir John Soane's Museum, 1908
Vermeule, Professor Cornelius
Catalogue of the Classical Antiquities in Sir John Soane's Museum,
London 1953, Boston 1975
Jucker, Hans
'Klytia', Das Bildis im Blätterkelch, Lausanne/Freiburg 1961
Abdel-Haleem, Ayeshah
'Seti I in Britain', The Egyptian Bulletin, 1984
Dodson, Aidan
'A fragment of a Canopic chest in Sir John Soane's Museum',
The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 1985
Dorey, Helen
‘Sir John Soane’s Acquisition of the Sarcophagus of
Seti I’, Georgian Group Journal, 1991, pp. 26-35
Foster, Dagmar
'A Late Period Statue of an Overseer of Priests of Horus of Hierakonpolis',
Göttinger Miszellen: Beiträge zur ägyptologischen Diskussion, 1989 [article
in English on a statuette of Ma in the Soane collection]
Massner, Anne-Kathrein
'Ägyptisierende Bildnisse des Kaisers Claudius', Separatum
aus Antike Kunst, 1986
Walker, Susan
'Corinthian capitals with ringed voids: the work of Athenian Craftsmen
in the Second Century A.D.', Archaologischer Auzeiger, 1979
Walker, Susan
'Clytie - A false woman?', Why fake's Matter (ed. M. Jones),
British Museum, 1993
Davoli, Paola
'Il dossier di Aku', Aegyptiaca Bononiensia, Monografie di SEAP,
Series Minor, 2 (1990)
[article on Egyptian stelae including two in Soane collection]
Medieval
Rogers, P.M.
'Medieval fragments from the Old Palace of Westminster in the
Sir John Soane's Museum', Parliamentary History, Libraries and Records,
1981
Renaissance and Neo-Classical
R.J. Charleston
'The Bow Flora and Michael Rysbrack', Apollo, April 1956
J.V.G. Mallet
'In Botega di maestro Guido Durantino in Urbino', Burlington
Magazine, May 1987
Kelly, Alison
'Mrs. Coade's Stone', The Connoisseur, January 1978
Pope-Hennessy, Sir John
'Two models for the Tomb of Michaelangelo', Festchrift for
a German professor, 1960s
Fleming, S.J.
'Bronzes from the Giambologna Workshop: Two Attributions,
MASCA Journal, June 1981
Furniture
Bolton, A.T.
'The Furniture of Sir John Soane', The Architect's Journal,
August 1923
Symonds, R.W.
'Furniture in the Soane Museum', Country Life, 1950
Thornton, Peter
'Soane's Kent Tables', Furniture History, 1993
Gibson, Katharine
'The Kingdom's Marble Chronicle', The Royal Exchange (ed.
Anne saunders), London Topographical Society publication no. 152, 1997
[ref: Quellin terracotta of Charles II]
Jaffer, Dr. Amin
'Tipu Sultan, Warren Hastings and Queen Charlotte: the mythology
and typology of Anglo-Indian ivory Furniture', The Bulington Magazine,
May 1999 [ref: 4 ivory chairs and 1 table]
Paintings
The Soane's Hogarths, Canalettos, Turners and other regency paintings
have been included in many exhibition catalogues (see list of loans
Appendix ) and these are not listed here. Nor are the standard
works on these artists which mention the Soane paintings included.
Boase, T.S.R.
'English Artists and the Val D'Aosta', Journal of the Warburg
and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. XIX, Nos. 3-4, 1956
S.C. Scull
The Soane Hogarths, Trefoil Publications, 1991
J.G. Links
The Soane Canalettos, Sir John Soane's Museum 1998
Dorey, H.F.
'The Historic framing and presentation of Watercolours, drawings
and prints in Sir John Soane's Museum', The Historic Framing and
Presentation of Watercolours, Drawings and Prints (ed. Nancy Bell),
Institute of Paper Conservation 1997
Engravings
Joyce, H.
'The Ancient Frescoes from the Villa Negroni and their influence
in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries', The Art Bulletin, September
1983
Drawings
There are numerous books and articles on the work of the architects
of whose work the Soane has major holdings (Robert Adam, Charles-Louis
Clérisseau, George Dance, Sir William Chambers, Sir Christopher Wren,
Joseph Michael Gandy etc.). These all contain references to drawings
in the Soane collection but are too numerous to be include in this select
bibliography: those listed therefore are those which focus on the Soane
collection.
Summerson, John
‘The Strange Case of J. M. Gandy’, Architect and
Building News, 10 January 1936, pp.38-44
Stroud, Dorothy
‘Soane’s Designs for a Triumphal Bridge’,
Architectural Review, April 1957, pp.260-62
Flemming, John
Robert Adam and his Circle in Edinburgh & Rome, London,
1962
Harris, Eileen
The Furniture of Robert Adam, London, 1963
Rowe, Robert
Adam Silver 1765-1795, London, 1965
Stillman, Damie
The Decorative Work of Robert Adam, London, 1966
Carr, Gerald L.
‘Soane’s Specimen Church Designs of 1818', Architectural
History, vol. 16, 1973, pp. 37-53
Lukacher, Brian
‘Phantasmagoria and Emenations: Lighting Effects in the
Architectural Fantasies of Joseph Michael Gandy’, AA Files,
vol.4, 1983, pp.40-48
Bolton, Arthur T.
The Architecture of Robert and James Adam, (2 Vols), London,
1922 and Woodbridge, 1984
Rowan, Alistair
Designs for Castles and Country Villas by Robert and James Adam,
Oxford, 1985
Lukacher, Brian
‘John Soane and his draughtsman Joseph Michael Gandy’,
Diadalos, vol.25, September 1987, pp.51-64
Richardson, Margaret
‘Soane’s Use of Drawings’, pp.234-241 in Sir
John Soane’s Museum; A Special Issue of Apollo, Apollo vol.81,
April 1990
King, David
The Complete Works of Robert & James Adam, Oxford, 1991
Sanderson, Margaret, H.B.
Robert Adam and Scotland: Portrait of an Architect, Edinburgh,
1992
Tait, A.A.
Robert Adam: Drawings and Imagination, Cambridge, 1993
Sir John Soane’s Museum
Soane: Connoisseur & Collector; A Selection of Drawings from
Sir John Soane’s Collection, Exhibition Catalogue, 1995
Sir John Soane’s Museum
Buildings in Progress: Soane’s Views of Construction, Exhibition
Catalogue, London, 1995
Sir John Soane’s Museum
Soane Revisited: A Journey of Rediscovery of the Buildings of
Sir John Soane, Exhibition Catalogue, London 1996
Tait, A.A.
Robert Adam, The Creative Mind: from the Sketch to the Finished
Drawing, (Exhibition Catalogue). London, Sir John Soane’s Museum,
1996
Waterfield, Giles, ed.
Soane and Death, Exhibition Catalogue, Dulwich Picture Gallery,
1996
The Archive
Bolton, Arthur T.
The Portrait of Sir John Soane, R.A. (edited correspondence
from the Soane Archive)
London 1927
Palmer, Susan
‘The Papers of Sir John Soane’, pp.248-51 in Sir
John Soane’s Museum; A Special Issue of Apollo, Apollo vol.81,
April 1990
Watkin, David
Sir John Soane: Enlightenment Thought and the Royal Academy Lectures,
Cambridge University Press, 1996
Sir John Soane’s Museum
Visions of Ruin: Architectural fantasies and designs for garden
follies, Exhibition Catalogue, London 1999, which publishes for
the first time Crude Hints towards a History of my House, a manuscript
written by Soane in 1812
Watkin, David
Sir John Soane: The Royal Academy Lectures, Cambridge University
Press, 2000
[a paperback text of the lectures with an introductory essay: a concise
version of Dr. Watkin's magisterial 1996 volume]
Architectural Models
Wilton-Ely, John
‘The Architectural Models of Sir John Soane: A Catalogue’,
Architectural History, Vol.12, 1969
The Library
Harris, Eileen
‘Sir John Soane’s Library: “O, Books! Ye Monuments
of Mind”’, pp.242-47 in Sir John Soane’s Museum;
A Special Issue of Apollo, Apollo vol.81, April 1990
WORKS ON SIR JOHN SOANE AND HIS ARCHITECTURE
General Works
Britton, John
A brief Memoir of Sir John Soane,
London, 1834
Donaldson, Thomas Leverton
A Review of the Professional Life of Sir John Soane, London,
1837
Bolton, Arthur T.
Architectural Education a Century Ago. Being an account of the
office of Sir John Soane, R.A., with special reference to the career
of George Basevi
London n.d. (?1923)
Bolton, Arthur T.
The Works of Sir John Soane, F.R.S., F.S.A., R.A. (1753-1837)
London 1924
Birnstingl, H. J.
Sir John Soane, London, 1925
Bolton, Arthur T., ed
Lectures on Architecture by Sir John Soane.....As delivered to
the Students of the Royal Academy from 1809 to 1836 in Two Courses of
Six Lectures each
London 1929
Summerson, John
‘Sir John Soane’, The Times, 20 January 1937
Summerson, John
‘The Subtle Magic of Sir John Soane’, The Listener,
11 September 1947, pp.427-8
Summerson, John
‘Soane: The Case History of a Personal Style’,
RIBA Journal, 3rd Series, LVIII, 1951, pp.83-91
Summerson, Sir John
Sir John Soane, London, 1952
Stroud, Dorothy
‘The Early Work of Soane’, Architectural Review,
February 1957, pp.121-22
Stroud, Dorothy
The Architecture of Sir John Soane, London, 1961
Du Prey, Pierre de la Ruffinière
John Soane’s Education 1753-80, Princeton University
Ph.D. thesis, 1972; New York 1977
Du Prey, Pierre de la Ruffiniere
‘Soane and Hardwick in Rome: a Neo-Classical Partnership’,
Architectural History, vol. 15, 1972, pp.51-67
Summerson, John
‘Sir John Soane and the Furniture of Death’, Architectural
Review, March 1978, pp.147-58
Du Prey, Pierre de la Ruffinière
‘Eighteenth Century English Sources for a History of Swiss
Wooden bridges’, Zeitschrift für schweizerische Archäologie
und Kunstgeschichte, vol. 36, 1979, pp.51-63
Du Prey, Pierre de la Ruffinière
‘John Soane, Philip Yorke, and their Quest for Primitive
Architecture’, National Trust Studies, London, 1979, pp. 28-38
Teyssot, Georges
John Soane and the birth of style, Oppositions 14, Fall 1978
John Soane et la naissance du style, Archives d'Architecture
Moderne 21, 1981
Du Prey, Pierre de la Ruffinière
John Soane: The Making of an Architect, Chicago and London,
1982
Academy Editions Monograph: John Soane
London 1983
Du Prey, Pierre de la Ruffinière
Catalogues of Architectural Drawings at the V&A: Sir John
Soane, London 1985
Cruickshank, Dan
‘Soane and the Meaning of Colour’, Architectural
Review, vol. 185, January 1989, pp. 46-52
Kelly, Alison
‘Soane’s use of Coade Stone’, Apollo, April
1989
Richardson, Margaret
‘John Soane; The Business of Architecture’, in
Georgian Architectural Practice, The Georgian Group Symposium 1991,
London, 1991
McCarthy, Michael
‘Thomas Pitt, Piranesi and John Soane: English Architects
in Italy in the 1770s’, Apollo, vol.34, December 1991, pp.380-86
Richardson, Margaret
‘Learning in the Soane Office’, in Bingham, Neil
(ed), The Education of the Architect, Proceedings of the 22nd
Annual Symposium of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great
Britain, London, 1992
Watkin, David
‘Freemasonry and Sir John Soane’, Journal of the
Society of Architectural Historians, 54:4, December 1995, pp. 402-17
Middleton, Robin
‘The History of John Soane’s “Designs for Public
and Private Buildings”’, Burlington Magazine, August 1996,
pp.506-516
Stroud, Dorothy
Sir John Soane Architect
London 1984, revised ed. London 1996
Waterfield, Giles, ed.
Soane and Death, Exhibition Catalogue, Dulwich Picture Gallery,
1996
Sawyer, Sean
‘Sir John Soane’s Symbolic Westminster: The Apotheosis
of George IV’, Architectural History, 39, 1996, pp.54-76
Watkin, David
Sir John Soane: Enlightenment Thought and the Royal Academy Lectures,
Cambridge, 1996
Watkin, David
Sir John Soane & Enlightenment Thought: The Annual Soane
Lecture, 1996, London, 1996
Mosley, James
The Nymph and the Grot; The Revival of the Sanserif Letter,
London, 1999
Sir John Soane’s Museum
Visions of Ruin: Architectural fantasies and designs for garden
follies, Exhibition Catalogue, London 1999
This catalogue incorporates the text of Soane's extraordinary 1812
manuscript 'Crude Hints towards an History of my House', edited
with notes and an introductory essay by Helen Dorey.
Darley, Gillian
John Soane: An Accidental Romantic, London and New Haven,
1999
Dean, Ptolemy
Sir John Soane and the Country Estate, London, 1999
Dean, Ptolemy
Sir John Soane and London, London, 2006
A selection of works on individual buildings designed by Sir
John Soane
Belfast and Northern Ireland
Dixon, Hugh
Soane and the Belfast Academical Institution, Gatherum 8,
1976
Pierre de la Ruffiniere du Prey
'Je N'Oublieray jamais': John Soane and Downhill, Irish Georgian
Society Bulletin, Vol. XXI, 1978
The Bank of England
Bolton, Arthur T.
A short Account of the Evolution of the Tivoli Corner of The
Bank of England, designed by Sir John Soane, R.A. 1804-5. Issued by
the Trustees of Sir John Soane’s Museum as a protest against any
alteration of the Design and as a record
London, 1933
Leeds, W.H.
‘An Essay on the Architectural Character of the Bank of
England’, in Britton, John and Pugin, Augustus (eds), Illustrations
of the Public Buildings of London, Vol.2, London, 1828
Summerson, John
‘The Evolution of Soane’s Bank Stock Office in the
Bank of England’, Architectural History, Vol.27, 1984
Schumann-Bacia, Eva
Die Bank von England und ihr Architekt John Soane, Zurich
and Munich, 1989
John Soane and The Bank of England, London, 1991
Abramson, Daniel M.
Money’s Architecture: the Building of the Bank of England, 1731-1833,
Harvard University Ph.D. thesis 1993
Abramson, Daniel M.‘C R Cockerell’s “Architectural
Progress of the Bank of England”’, Architectural History,
vol. 37, 1994, pp. 112-29
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Richardson, Margaret
‘Soane in Chelsea’, The Chelsea Society Report,
1992, pp.45-51
Cruikshank, Dan
‘Complex Classicism: Wren and Soane at the Royal Hospital,
Chelsea’, Architect’s Journal, 26 November 1998, pp. 26-42
Nos. 10 & 11 Downing Street
HMSO Publications
11 Downing Street, 1990
Hewlings, Richard
11 Downing Street: John Soane's work for John Eliot 1797-1805,
Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, Vol. 39, 1995
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Binney, Marcus
London's First Picture Gallery, Country Life, January 1970
Davies, Colin
Masters of Building: The first independent purpose-built Picture
Gallery: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Architect's Journal, April 1984
Dulwich Picture Gallery
‘Soane and After: The Architecture of Dulwich Picture Gallery’,
Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1987
Ballantyne, Andrew
‘First Principles and Ancient Errors: Soane at Dulwich’,
Architectural History, vol.37, 1994, pp. 96-111
Davies, Colin
‘Dulwich Picture Gallery’, The Architect’
Journal, Vol. XXXX, No.XXX, 19XX
Pell Wall, Shropshire
‘Soane’s Shell Must Survive’, SAVE Britain’s
Heritage
Worsley, Giles
‘Pell Wall Hall, Staffordshire’, Country Life,
7 April 1988
Matheou, Demitrios
‘Restoring Soane’s Last House Exactly as he Intended’,
The Architects Journal, 4 August 1994, pp.14-5
Taliotis, Xenia
‘Saving Soane’s Swansong’, Heritage Today,
September 1994, pp.32-33
Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing
Leary, Emmeline
Pitshanger Manor: An Introduction, London, 1990 and subsequent
eds
‘Sir John Soane and Pitshanger Manor’, RSA Journal,
Vol.CXXXVII No.5392, March 1989
Robinson, John Martin
Scraping the Ceiling [the restoration of Pitshanger Manor],
Country Life, 20 April 1989, pp.192-3
Stroud, Dorothy
Sir John Soane and the rebuilding of Pitszhanger Manor, Henry
Russell Hitchcock Festscrift, New York, 19XX, pp.38-51
The Soane Tomb, St. Pancras Gardens, London
Bowdler, Roger, and Woodward, Christopher
‘An Ornamental Stucture and Very Likely to Be Damaged...:
Sir John Soane’s Tomb in St. Pancras Gardens’, Architectural
History, Vol.42, 1999
The Law Courts, Westminster
Wedgwood, Alexandra
Soane’s Law Courts at Westminster, AA Files 24, Autumn
1992
Harris, John
‘Soane’s Classical Triumph: a Lost Westminster Triumph
Revealed’, Apollo, vol. 135, May 1992, pp.288-90
Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire
Woodward, Christopher
‘Dancing Soane: The Yellow Drawing Room at Wimpole Hall’,
Apollo, April 1999, pp.8-13
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