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

the Adam Brothers, 1761-80: the Etruscan Room.

20 Portman Square, London,

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

Adam from 1762: door of the drawing room

Portland Place, London,

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 Dcorations (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 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
Pordens 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 Hollands
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

REGENTS 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