architectural design

BELOW Henry Parke (Soane office apprentice), Royal Academy lecture drawing showing a plan of Stonehenge, Wiltshire. Pen, pencil, and coloured washes on wove paper, 1817. Size: 71.3 x 129.4cm

Paper worlds and hidden masterpieces

A small selection of the thousands of drawings compiled by Regency architect Sir John Soane have gone on display in London, among them exquisite works that bring us visions of ancient monuments abroad and of unrealised splendour in England. Lucia Marchini takes a look.