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SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
13 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3BP
THE SOANE MUSEUM STUDY GROUP
Tuesday 12 December 2006, 6.00 for 6.30pm
Early Cartographers and Architectural Draughtsmanship
by Dr Paula Henderson
At a time when the 'architectural profession' was in its infancy and men
like the mason Robert Smythson and the surveyor John Thorpe were producing
the earliest surviving collections of architectural drawings, cartographers
and topographers such as Ralph Agas and John Norden were also recording
buildings. Early maps - particularly estate maps - provided one of the
richest sources of information on the gardens and settings of great houses
in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. What is also intriguing is how
cartographers depicted buildings in their maps. This lecture will
investigate the various methods used by cartographers to record buildings
(including Ralph Agas's quite extraordinary isometric view of Toddington),
the skills they developed and advertised and the purposes for which their
maps and views were used. This is very much a 'thoughts in progress'
lecture.
Paula Henderson has degrees in art history from the University of Chicago
(MA) and a PhD in architectural history from the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Her book, The Tudor House and Garden: architecture and landscape in the 16th
and early 17th centuries (published by Yale University Press), won the
Berger Prize for British art in 2005. Treehouses (co-authored with Adam
Mornement and published by Frances Lincoln, also in 2005) has been acclaimed
'the last word on the subject'.
Places must be booked in advance by contacting William Palin, Assistant
Curator, Sir John Soane's Museum. Tel: 020 7440 4246. Email:
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We ask for a contribution of £5.00 on the evening, to cover the cost of wine
and postage.
The Soane Museum Study Group is a forum for discussion into all aspects of
architectural history and related areas of interest, with a particular focus
on work in progress.
[posted by Tony Campbell - please address any queries to William Palin]
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