The Collections
Egyptian and Greek and Roman Antiquities
Abdel-Haleem, Ayeshah
'Seti I in Britain', The Egyptian Bulletin, 1984
Capart, Jean
'Short note on statuette of Ma in Sir John Soane's Museum', in Proceedings of the Society for Biblical Archaeology, vol. 29, 1907
Cross, Stephen
‘An Alabaster Coffin and Seti I’s Last Secret’ in Ancient Egyptian Magazine, Vol.10 issue 5 April/May 2010, pp18-25
Davoli, Paola
'Il dossier di Aku', Aegyptiaca Bononiensia, Monografie di SEAP, Series Minor, 2 (1990) [article on Egyptian stelae including two in Soane collection]
Dodson, Aidan
'A fragment of a Canopic chest in Sir John Soane's Museum', The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 1985, pp177-9
Dorey, Helen
‘Sir John Soane’s Acquisition of the Sarcophagus of Seti I’, Georgian Group Journal, 1991, pp. 26-35
'Sir John Soane’s Museum’ [Soane’s collection of antiquities] in Minerva: The International Review of Ancient Art and Archaeology, November/December 2002, Volume 13 Number 6, pp. 19-22
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]
Jucker, Hans
'Klytia', Das Bildis im Blätterkelch, Lausanne/Freiburg 1961
Massner, Anne-Kathrein
'Ägyptisierende Bildnisse des Kaisers Claudius', Separatum aus Antike Kunst, 1986
Michaelis, Adolf
Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, (trans. C.A.M. Fennell), Cambridge 1882
Vermeule, Professor Cornelius
Catalogue of the Classical Antiquities in Sir John Soane's Museum, London 1953, Boston 1975
Walker, Susan
'Corinthian capitals with ringed voids: the work of Athenian Craftsmen in the Second Century A.D.', in Archaologischer Auzeiger, 1979, pp103-29
'Clytie - A false woman?', in Why Fake's Matter (ed. M. Jones), British Museum, 1993, pp32-40
Wallis Budge, Sir Ernest Alfred
An Account of the Sarcopahgus of Seti I King of Egypt, BC 1370, Sir John Soane's Museum, 1908
Medieval
Rogers, Phillis M.
'Medieval fragments from the Old Palace of Westminster in the Sir John Soane's Museum', Parliamentary History, Libraries and Records, 1981, pp.1-8
Renaissance and Neo-Classical
Bryant, Julian (ed)
Thomas Banks (1735-1805): Britain’s First Modern Sculptor, Exhibition Catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London 2005
Charleston, R.J
'The Bow Flora and Michael Rysbrack', Apollo, April 1956
Dorey, Helen
‘Soane and Flaxman’, in Flaxman: Master of the Purest Line, Exhibition Catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum 2003
‘Soane and Banks’, in Thomas Banks: Britain’s First Modern Sculptor, Exhibition Catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum, 2005.
‘The union of architecture, sculpture and painting: Sir John Soane (1753-1837) as a collector of sculpture’, Sculpture Journal, vol. XII (2004)
Fleming, Stephen J.
'Bronzes from the Giambologna Workshop: Two Attribution's, in Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology Journal, vol.1 No.7 , June 1981, pp. 205-7
Kelly, Alison
'Mrs. Coade's Stone', Self Publishing Association, 1990
Mallet, J.V.G.
'In Botega di maestro Guido Durantino in Urbino', Burlington Magazine, May 1987
Pope-Hennessy, Sir John
'Two models for the Tomb of Michaelangelo', in Essays on Italian Sculpture, London, 1968
Furniture
Bolton, A.T.
'The Furniture of Sir John Soane', The Architect's Journal, August 1923
Dorey, Helen
‘A Catalogue of the Furniture in Sir John Soane’s Museum’, Journal of the Furniture History Society, 2008
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]
Symonds, R.W.
'Furniture in the Soane Museum', Country Life, 1950
Thornton, Peter
'Soane's Kent Tables', Furniture History, 1993
Paintings and Framed Drawings/Prints
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. The Museum's oil paintings have been catalogued and are available online through the Your Paintings website - please see the enclosed link.
Bindman, David, Ekserdjian, David and Palin, William (eds)
Hogarth’s Election Entertainment: Artists at the Hustings, Exhibition Catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum, 2001
Boase, T.S.R.
'English Artists and the Val D'Aosta', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. XIX, Nos. 3-4, 1956
Dorey, Helen
'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
‘John Soane and J.M.W Turner: Illuminating a Friendship’, Exhibition Catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum, 2007
Links, J.G
The Soane Canalettos, Sir John Soane's Museum 1998, revised edition 2010
Scull, S. C.
The Soane Hogarths, Trefoil Publications, 1991, revised colour edition, Sir John Soane's Museum, 2007
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 included in this select bibliography: those listed therefore are those which focus on the Soane collection. An ongoing project to make available the catalogues for these collections means that more entries are being added regularly - please visit our catalogue for more information.
Ashby, Thomas
‘Sixteenth-century drawings attributed to Andreas Coner’ Papers of the British School at Rome, v.2, London, Macmillan and Co, 1904. (Catalogue of the Codex Coner, SM Vol.115)
Astley, Stephen
Robert Adam’s Castles, Exhibition Catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London 2000
Bolton, Arthur T.
The Architecture of Robert and James Adam, (2 Vols), London, 1922 and Woodbridge, 1984
Carr, Gerald L.
‘Soane’s Specimen Church Designs of 1818', in Architectural History, vol. 16, 1973, pp. 37-53
De Divitiis, Bianca
‘A Newly Discovered volume from the office of Sir John Soane’ in The Burlington Magazine, CXLV, March 2003, pp180-198
Fairbairn, Lynda
The North Italian Album, Exhibition Catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum, 1998
Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Collection of Sir John Soane’s Museum, Azimuth Editions, 1998
Fleming, John
Robert Adam and his Circle in Edinburgh & Rome, London, 1962
Galvin, Terence
The Architecture of Joseph Michael Gandy (1771-1843) and Sir John Soane (1753-1837): An Exploration into the Masonic and Occult Imagination of the late Enlightenment, PhD these, University of Pennsylvania, 2003
Goodall, Ian and Richardson, Margaret
‘A Recently Discovered Gandy Sketchbook’ in Architectural History, Vol.44, 2001 pp45-56
Harris, Eileen
The Furniture of Robert Adam, London, 1963
The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors, London 2001
King, David
The Complete Works of Robert & James Adam, Oxford, 1991
Lever, Jill
Catalogue of the Drawings of George Dance the Younger (1741-1825) and of George Dance the Elder (1695-1768) from the collection of Sir John Soane’s Museum, Azimuth Editions, 2003
Architecture Unshackled: George Dance the Younger 1741-1825, Exhibition Guide, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London 2004
Lukacher, Brian
‘Phantasmagoria and Emenations: Lighting Effects in the Architectural Fantasies of Joseph Michael Gandy’, AA Files, vol.4, 1983, pp.40-48
‘John Soane and his draughtsman Joseph Michael Gandy’, in Diadalos, vol.25, September 1987, pp.51-64
Joseph Gandy in the Shadow of the Enlightenment, Annual Soane Lecture 2001
Joseph Gandy: An Architectural Visionary in Georgian England, London, 2006
De Prey, Pierre de la Ruffiniere
‘Soane Drawings – A Laying on of Hands’ in Architecture and Ideas, Winter/Spring 2001, Vol. 3, (1) pp10-23
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
Rowan, Alistair
Designs for Castles and Country Villas by Robert and James Adam, Oxford, 1985
‘Bob the Roman’: Heroic Antiquity and the Architecture of Robert Adam, Exhibition Catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London 2003
Rowe, Robert
Adam Silver 1765-1795, London, 1965
Sanderson, Margaret H.B.
Robert Adam and Scotland: Portrait of an Architect, Edinburgh, 1992
Sir John Soane’s Museum
Soane: Connoisseur & Collector; A Selection of Drawings from Sir John Soane’s Collection, Exhibition Catalogue, 1995
Buildings in Progress: Soane’s Views of Construction, Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1995
Soane Revisited: A Journey of Rediscovery of the Buildings of Sir John Soane, Exhibition Catalogue, London 1996
Stillman, Damie
The Decorative Work of Robert Adam, London, 1966
Stroud, Dorothy
‘Soane’s Designs for a Triumphal Bridge’, Architectural Review, April 1957, pp.260-62
Summerson, John
‘The Strange Case of J. M. Gandy’, Architect and Building News, 10 January 1936, pp.38-44
Tait, A.A.
Robert Adam: Drawings and Imagination, Cambridge, 1993
Robert Adam, The Creative Mind: from the Sketch to the Finished Drawing, (Exhibition Catalogue). London, Sir John Soane’s Museum, 1996
The Adam Brothers in Rome: Drawings from the Grand Tour, London, 2008
Waterfield, Giles, ed.
Soane and Death, Exhibition Catalogue, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 1996
Woodward, Christopher
Soane’s Magician: The Tragic Genius of Joseph Michael Gandy, Exhibition Guide, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London 2006
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
‘Sir John Soane: Rewriting a Life’ in Libraries and the Cultural Record, Vol.44 No.1, 2009, pp65-81
‘Building a Library: Evidence from Sir John Soane’s Archive’ in Myers, Harris and Mandelbrote (eds) ‘Publishing the Fine and Applied Arts 1500-2000’, British Library April 2012
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: Enlightenment Thought and the Royal Academy Lectures, Cambridge University Press, 1996
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]
Visions of World Architecture: John Soane’s Royal Academy Lecture Illustrations, Exhibition Guide, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London 2007
Architectural Models
Richardson, Margaret
‘Model Architecture’, Country Life 183 (21 September 1989) pp. 224–7.
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
Harris, Eileen and Savage, Nicholas (eds).,
Hooked on Books: The Library of Sir John Soane Architect 1753-1837, Exhibition Catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, 2004
Savage, Nicholas
‘Hooked on Books: Interpreting Sir John Soane’s Private Library` ppxxx in The Private Library, Volume 10:1 Spring 2007.
Palmer, Susan
'Sir John Soane: Rewriting a Life' in Libraries and the Cultural Record, Vol 44 No.1, 2009, pp65-81
'Building a Library: Evidence from Sir John Soane's Archive' in Myers, Harris and Mandelbrote (eds) 'Publishing the Fine and Applied Arts 1500-2000', British Library September 2012
Stained Glass
Dorey, Helen
(ed. Sandra Coley), The Stained Glass Collection of Sir John Soane’s Museum, The Journal of Stained Glass, Vol. XXVII, Special Issue and Extra Number 2004