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Nash and the Regency

the Regency 1811-1830

insanity of George III rule of the 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 , : interior view.

MUAS10,521

PROTO-REGENCY CHARACTERISTICS

abstract shapes shallow plaster decoration

light colouration Osterley , (1577) remodelled by 20 Portman Square, London, the Adam Brothers, 1761-80: the Etruscan Room. by , 1775-7: the music room MUAS 2,550 MUAS 2,238 ‘Etruscan’ decoration by the Adam brothers Syon House, Middlesex, remodelled by Robert , London, Adam from 1762: door of the drawing room by the Adam brothers from 1773: detail MUAS 10,579 MUAS 24,511 shallow pilasters the Empire Style in Bed for Mme M, and Armchair with Swan vases, both from Percier & Fontaine, Receuil de Décorations (1801) Regency drawing room, from Thomas Hope, Household Furniture and Decoration (1807) Regency vernacular 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 balconies

No 24, The Front, ; 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 Cruikshank Pilcher, The Regency Style, p 87 (1752-1835)

articled to Robert Taylor

failed as a building speculator

re-established in and the west country country houses influenced hy

partnership with

patronage of the Prince of Wales (George IV) Nash in Wales

Carmarthen Gaol, c 1788-92 , The Life and Work of John Nash (London 1980), p 35

Cathedral of St David, : drawing of 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 2,244 J M Crook, The Greek Revival (London 1972), pl 129 Castle House, , by Nash, 1793 (demolished 1845) Davis, John Nash, pl 4 dairy at Blaise Castle, Gloucestershire, 1803

Miles Lewis 1974 the eighteenth Century rustic tradition

one of the thatched cottages in Badminton Village, near , by Thomas Wright, c 1748-1756

Tony Evans & C L Green, English Cottages (London 1982), p 124 , 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 , , preliminary design by Nash, 1802, rendered by George Repton

Margaret Richardson, : Connoisseur and Collector[catalogue] (London 1995), no 40 Cronkhill as executed: view and plan

Davis, John Nash, p 25 Summerson, John Nash, p 72 Sandridge Park, Devon, by Nash, c 1805 Mark Girouard, Life in the : a Social and Architectural History(New Haven [Connecticut] 1978), p 228 Killymoon Castle, , , , by Nash, 1802 view and plan

Summerson, John Nash, plate II & p 69 Shanbally Castle, , by Nash, c 1812

Country Life, 30 May 1974, p 1358 Castle, , 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 : view and plan

Summerson, John Nash, pl 45A & p 147 Cartoon of Mrs Nash and George IV, c 1822 Davis, John Nash, pl 37 , Windsor, by Nash, 1812-14 & 1820s entrance front & garden front

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

engraving after a drawing by Delamotte, 1824, Royal Library, : John Summerson, The Life and Work of John Nash (London1980), pl 26A 'Rusticating' ?by Cruikshank Strong, Royal Gardens, p 86 bathing at Brighton

John Dinkel, The , Brighton (London 1983), p 15 view of Brighton by Lambert, 1765 Dinkel, The Royal Pavilion, p 4 former Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Henry Holland, 1784-7, and P F Robinson, 1801-02 Mark Girouard, Historic Houses of Great Britain (London 1984 [1979]), p 25 former Royal Pavilion, elevation of main front, and plan with extensions to 1809 engraved 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, 1816

Dinkel, The Royal Pavilion, p 4 Royal Pavilion

William Porden's project or the east front, 1803

Oliver Impel, Chinoiserie: the Impact of Oriental Styles on Western Art and Decoration (London 1977), pp 142-3

Stables of the Royal Pavilion, by William Porden, c 1803-5

MUAS 8,413 the Royal Pavilion

Repton's view of the existing west side, with Porden’s stables in the foreground, and his ‘Mughal’ proposal, 1805

Strong, Royal Gardens, p 83 Royal Pavilion

Repton's view of the existing east garden, with Holland’s rotunda on the right, and his ‘Chinese’ proposal, 1805

Strong, Royal Gardens, p 83 Royal Pavilion work 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 Room

unknown source Royal Pavilion

the 'Chinese Gallery‘ and the ‘Bamboo Stair’

Goff, The Royal Pavilion, pp 35, 34 Royal Pavilion: plan of the site Nash, Illustrations of the Palace at Brighton Royal Pavilion: plan of the house MUAS 8,418 Royal Pavilion the South Drawing Room MUAS 8,407 the North Drawing Room view and detail of palm and serpent column Goff, The Royal Pavilion, p 39 Royal Pavilion

the Red Drawing Room Dinkel, The Royal Pavilion, p 83

the Kitchen MUAS 8,412 Royal Pavilion: longitudinal section

Nash, Illustrations of the Palace at Brighton Royal Pavilion roofs and details

Jeff Turnbull Royal Pavilion, view of the east front by Auguste Pugin Nash, Illustrations of the Palace at Brighton Royal Pavilion, modern view Jeff Turnbull , by Nash, 1820-1837 from a watercolour by Joseph Nash, 1846 Davis, John Nash, pl 77 Buckingham Palace, the Blue Drawing Room Davis, John Nash, pl 77 , Hyde Park (originally from Buckingham Palace) by John Nash, 1828 Miles Lewis REGENT’S PARK Regent's Park

first proposal by John Nash, 1812

MUAS 6,356

as executed

John Summerson, Architecture in Britain 1530 to 1830 (4th ed, Harmond-sworth [Middlesex] 1963 [1953]), p 296 Park Crescent East and Park Crescent West, looking south from Park Square

MUAS 2,246 Jeff Turnbull 1976 Park Square East & Park Square West from Regent's Park

Jeff Turnbull 1976 MUAS 11,558 Ulster Terrace by Nash, early 1820s

Emil Kaufmann, Architecture in the Age of Reason: Baroque and post-Baroque in , , and France (New York 1968 [1955]), pl 72

Clarence Terrace, probably by ,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 [itectur]e

Watkin,Cockerell, p 69 Sussex Place Terrace, 1822

contemporary and modern views

MUAS 26,555, 11,544 Hanover Terrace by Nash, 1822-3

Kaufmann, Architecture in the Age of Reason, pl 69

Gloucester Gate Terrace completed 1827 MUAS 11,552 Cumberland Terrace, by Nash, 1827 Summerson, Architecture in Britain, pl 197A Cumberland Terrace

Summerson,John Nash, pl 194 details of Cumberland Terrace

Jeff Turnbull , by Nash and Decimus Burton, 1825 contemporary view and modern detail of linking arch

Kaufmann, Architecture in the Age of Reason, pl 74 MUAS 8,233 Tunnel, Regent's Park Canal, illustration by Ackerman MUAS 16,310 Park Village East, from 1825

Davis, John Nash, pl 50 Regent Street, first plan

Derived from 'Plan of a New Street from Charing Cross to Portland Place‘ from the First Report of the Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, 1812

Regent's Park and Street, plan of the whole development

Summerson, John Nash p 127 & endpaper All Souls, Langham Place, by Nash, 1822-4

Woodmansterne Elfincolor no 257 North end of Regent Street MUAS 13,146

Regent Street, looking south to the Quadrant

Summerson, Architecture in Britain, pl 196 the Quadrant, with the County Fire Office on the right lithograph by T S Boys MUAS 14,778 aerial view of the Quadrant and Circus

MUAS 13,457 Terrace by Nash & Pennethorne 1827-9

Jeff Turnbull 1976 MUAS 4446 , details MUAS 11,554 Jeff Turnbull 1976