702231 MODERN ARCHITECTURE A

Nash and the Regency

the Regency1811-1830

insanity of George IIIrule of the Prince Regent

1811-20

rule of George IV(former Prince Regent)

1820-1830

the Regency style

lack of theoretical structure

cavalier attitude to classical authority

abstraction of masses and volumes

shallow decoration and elegant colours

exterior stucco and light ironwork decoration

eclectic use of Greek Revival and Gothick elements

Georgian house in Harley Street,London: interior view.

MUAS10,521

PROTO-REGENCYCHARACTERISTICS

abstract shapes

shallow plaster decoration

light colouration

Osterley Park, Middlesex (1577) remodelled by the Adam Brothers, 1761-80: the Etruscan Room.

MUAS 2,550

20 Portman Square, London,by Robert Adam, 1775-7: the music room

MUAS 2,238

‘Etruscan’ decoration by the Adam brothers

Syon House, Middlesex, remodelled by RobertAdam from 1762: door of the drawing room

MUAS 10,579

Portland Place, London,by the Adam brothers from 1773: detail

MUAS 24,511

shallow pilasters

the Empire Style in FranceBed for Mme M, and Armchair with Swan vases,

both from Percier & Fontaine, Receuil de Décorations (1801)

Regency drawing room, fromThomas Hope, Household Furniture and Decoration (1807)

Regencyvernacular

with pilastration

Sandford Park Hotel,Bath Road, Cheltenham

Miles Lewis

Regency vernacular

with blind arches and Greek fret

pilasters

Oriel Place, Bath Road,Cheltenham

photos Miles Lewis

Regency vernacular with balconiesNo 24, The Front, Brighton; two views in Bayswater Road, London

MUAS 8,397, 8,220, 8,222

'Verandah' [balcony], from J B Papworth, Rural Residences,Consisting of a Series of Designs for Cottages, Decorated Cottages,

Small Villas, and other Ornamental Buildings ... (London 1818), pl 26.

seaside resort housing

Brunswick Square and Marine Square, Brighton

MUAS 8,393, 8,399

'London going out of town - or - the march of bricks and mortar', by CruikshankPilcher, The Regency Style, p 87

John Nash (1752-1835)

articled to Robert Taylor

failed as a building speculator

re-established in Wales and the west country

country houses influenced hy Richard Payne Knight

partnership with Humphry Repton

patronage of the Prince of Wales (George IV)

Nash inWales

Carmarthen Gaol,c 1788-92

John Summerson, The Life andWork of John Nash(London 1980), p 35

Cathedral of St David,Carmarthen: drawingof the west front, 1793

Terence Davis, John Nash:the Prince Regent's Architect

(London 1966), pl 1

Downton Castle, Herefordshire,by Richard Payne Knight,1774-8; dining room possibly with the assistance of Nash, 1782

MUAS 2,244J M Crook, The Greek Revival (London 1972), pl 129

Castle House, Aberystwyth, by Nash, 1793 (demolished 1845)Davis, John Nash, pl 4

dairy at Blaise Castle, Gloucestershire, 1803Miles Lewis 1974

the eighteenthCentury

rustic tradition

one of the thatchedcottages in BadmintonVillage, near Bristol,by Thomas Wright,

c 1748-1756

Tony Evans & C L Green,English Cottages (London 1982), p 124

Blaise Hamlet, Henbury, Bristol, by John Nash and George Repton, 1811-1812,watercolour view by Francis Danby, c 1832

City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

Circular Cottage and Sweetbriar Cottage, Blaise Hamlet,by John Nash (with George Repton), 1811-12

Miles Lewis

Cronkhill, Shropshire, preliminary design by Nash, 1802,rendered by George Repton

Margaret Richardson, John Soane: Connoisseur and Collector[catalogue] (London 1995), no 40

Cronkhill as executed:view and plan

Davis, John Nash, p 25Summerson, John Nash, p 72

Sandridge Park, Devon, by Nash, c 1805Mark Girouard, Life in the English Country House: a Social

and Architectural History(New Haven [Connecticut] 1978), p 228

Killymoon Castle,Cookstown,

County Tyrone, Ireland,by Nash, 1802view and plan

Summerson, John Nash, plate II & p 69

Shanbally Castle, County Tipperary, by Nash, c 1812

Country Life, 30 May 1974, p 1358

East Cowes Castle, Isle of Wight, c 1798-1833(demolished in the 1950s): view in 1808

Summerson, John Nash, pl 44A, from W Cooke, New Picture of the Isle of Wight (1808)

East Cowes Castle: view and planSummerson, John Nash, pl 45A & p 147

Cartoon of Mrs Nash and George IV, c 1822Davis, John Nash, pl 37

Royal Lodge,Windsor, by Nash,1812-14 & 1820sentrance front &

garden front

Roy Strong, Royal Gardens(London 1992), p 8

engraving after a drawingby Delamotte, 1824,

Royal Library, Windsor Castle:John Summerson, The Life

and Work of John Nash(London1980), pl 26A

'Rusticating' ?by CruikshankStrong, Royal Gardens, p 86

bathing at BrightonJohn Dinkel, The Royal Pavilion, Brighton (London 1983), p 15

view of Brighton by Lambert, 1765Dinkel, The Royal Pavilion, p 4

former Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Henry Holland, 1784-7, and P F Robinson, 1801-02Mark Girouard, Historic Houses of Great Britain (London 1984 [1979]), p 25

former Royal Pavilion, elevation of main front, and plan with extensions to 1809engraved after Auguste Pugin's drawing, 1784-7 & 1801-2, in

John Nash, Illustrations of His Majesty's Royal Palace at Brighton (London), p 25

'The Court at Brighton à la Chinese', by Cruikshank, 1816Dinkel, The Royal Pavilion, p 4

Royal Pavilion

William Porden's project or the east front, 1803

Oliver Impel, Chinoiserie: the Impact ofOriental Styles on Western Art and

Decoration (London 1977), pp 142-3

Stables of the RoyalPavilion, by WilliamPorden, c 1803-5

MUAS 8,413

the Royal Pavilion

Repton's view of the existing west side, with

Porden’s stablesin the foreground, and his‘Mughal’ proposal, 1805

Strong, Royal Gardens, p 83

Royal Pavilion

Repton's view ofthe existingeast garden,

with Holland’srotunda on theright, and his

‘Chinese’ proposal,1805

Strong, Royal Gardens, p 83

Royal Pavilionwork by John Nash of 1815-1818 &c: the Banqueting Room

contemporary & modern views

unknown source; Treasure Houses of Great Britain (1983)

Royal Pavilion, Banqueting Room: detail of dragon light fitting

Dinkel, The Royal Pavilion, p 9

Royal Pavilion

the Music Roomunknown source

Royal Pavilion

the 'Chinese Gallery‘and the ‘Bamboo Stair’

Goff, The Royal Pavilion, pp 35, 34

Royal Pavilion: plan of the siteNash, Illustrations of the Palace at Brighton

Royal Pavilion: plan of the houseMUAS 8,418

Royal Pavilionthe South Drawing Room

MUAS 8,407

the North Drawing Roomview and detail of

palm and serpent columnGoff, The Royal Pavilion, p 39

Royal Pavilion

the Red Drawing RoomDinkel, The Royal Pavilion, p 83

the KitchenMUAS 8,412

Royal Pavilion: longitudinal sectionNash, Illustrations of the Palace at Brighton

Royal Pavilion

roofs and detailsJeff Turnbull

Royal Pavilion, view of the east front by Auguste PuginNash, Illustrations of the Palace at Brighton

Royal Pavilion, modern viewJeff Turnbull

Buckingham Palace, by Nash, 1820-1837from a watercolour by Joseph Nash, 1846

Davis, John Nash, pl 77

Buckingham Palace, the Blue Drawing RoomDavis, John Nash, pl 77

Marble Arch, Hyde Park (originally from Buckingham Palace) by John Nash, 1828Miles Lewis

REGENT’S PARK

Regent's Park

first proposalby John Nash, 1812

MUAS 6,356

as executedJohn Summerson,

Architecture in Britain1530 to 1830 (4th ed,

Harmond-sworth [Middlesex]1963 [1953]), p 296

Park Crescent East and Park Crescent West, looking south from Park SquareMUAS 2,246

Jeff Turnbull 1976

Park Square East & Park Square West from Regent's ParkJeff Turnbull 1976

MUAS 11,558

Ulster Terraceby Nash, early 1820s

Emil Kaufmann, Architecturein the Age of Reason:

Baroque and post-Baroquein England, Italy, and

France (New York 1968[1955]), pl 72

Clarence Terrace,probably by Decimus

Burton,1823.

MUAS 11,548A

C R Cockerell, on Regent's Park

The architecture of the Regent's Park may be compared to the Poetry of an improvisatore - one is surprised and even

captivated at first sight with the profusion of splendid images,the variety of the scenery & the readiness of the fiction. But if as many were versed in the Grecian rules of this science as

there are in those of Homer and Virgil this trumpery would be less popular

………[There is] something mortifying & humiliating in seeing the

profusion of ornam[en]t & badness of the arch[itectur]e

Watkin,Cockerell, p 69

Sussex Place Terrace,1822

contemporary andmodern views

MUAS 26,555, 11,544

Hanover Terraceby Nash, 1822-3

Kaufmann, Architecturein the Age of Reason, pl 69

Gloucester GateTerrace

completed 1827MUAS 11,552

Cumberland Terrace, by Nash, 1827Summerson, Architecture in Britain, pl 197A

Cumberland Terrace

Summerson,John Nash, pl 194

details ofCumberland

Terrace

Jeff Turnbull

Chester Terrace, by Nash and Decimus Burton, 1825contemporary view and modern detail of linking arch

Kaufmann, Architecture in the Age of Reason, pl 74MUAS 8,233

Tunnel, Regent's Park Canal, illustration by AckermanMUAS 16,310

Park Village East, from 1825Davis, John Nash, pl 50

REGENT STREET

Regent Street, first planDerived from 'Plan of a New Street

from Charing Cross to Portland Place‘from the First Report of the

Commissioners of Woods, Forestsand Land Revenues, 1812

Regent's Parkand Street, plan of

the whole development

Summerson, John Nashp 127 & endpaper

All Souls, Langham Place,by Nash, 1822-4

Woodmansterne Elfincolor no 257

North end ofRegent Street

MUAS 13,146

Regent Street,looking south

to the Quadrant

Summerson, Architecturein Britain, pl 196

the Quadrant, with the County Fire Office on the rightlithograph by T S Boys

MUAS 14,778

aerial view of the Quadrantand Piccadilly Circus

MUAS 13,457

Carlton House Terraceby Nash & Pennethorne

1827-9

Jeff Turnbull 1976MUAS 4446

Carlton House Terrace, detailsMUAS 11,554

Jeff Turnbull 1976