A Golden Age of Architecture: Rare Elizabethan & Early Jacobean Drawings by Thorpe and the Smythsons

This film is part of our online exhibition, A Golden Age of Architecture: Rare Elizabethan & Early Jacobean Drawings by Thorpe and the Smythsons, which presents findings from two major cataloguing projects: one on the ‘Book of Architecture of John Thorpe’ in Sir John Soane’s Museum, a project undertaken by Manolo Guerci, and the second on the Smythson drawings at the Royal Institute of British Architects, currently being researched by Olivia Horsfall Turner.

In this film Manolo Guerci and Olivia Horsfall Turner explore the Thorpe Album and the Smythson drawings with Dr Frances Sands, Curator of Drawings and Books at Sir John Soane’s Museum, and two leading experts on early modern architecture and architectural drawing: Dr Gordon Higgott and Professor Maurice Howard.