702231 MODERN ARCHITECTURE A Nash and the Regency the Regency 1811-1830 insanity of George III rule 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-REGENCY CHARACTERISTICS abstract shapes shallow plaster decoration light colouration Osterley Park, Middlesex (1577) remodelled by 20 Portman Square, London, the Adam Brothers, 1761-80: the Etruscan Room. by Robert Adam, 1775-7: the music room MUAS 2,550 MUAS 2,238 ‘Etruscan’ decoration by the Adam brothers Syon House, Middlesex, remodelled by Robert Portland Place, 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 France 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, 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 Cruikshank Pilcher, 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 in Wales Carmarthen Gaol, c 1788-92 John Summerson, The Life and Work of John Nash (London 1980), p 35 Cathedral of St David, Carmarthen: 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, Aberystwyth, 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 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 25 Summerson, John Nash, p 72 Sandridge Park, Devon, by Nash, c 1805 Mark 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, 1802 view 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 plan Summerson, John Nash, pl 45A & p 147 Cartoon of Mrs Nash and George IV, c 1822 Davis, John Nash, pl 37 Royal Lodge, 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, Windsor Castle: 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 Royal Pavilion, 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 Buckingham Palace, 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 Marble Arch, 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 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 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 Chester Terrace, 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 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 Piccadilly Circus MUAS 13,457 Carlton House Terrace by Nash & Pennethorne 1827-9 Jeff Turnbull 1976 MUAS 4446 Carlton House Terrace, details MUAS 11,554 Jeff Turnbull 1976 .