Joseph Gandy

Gandy (fl. 1830) is the subject of a recent monograph by Brian Lukacher, rescuing him from obscurity. He was an architecht whose bull-headedness and arrogance guarenteed that he was never allowed to do any important work. Partly for that reason, partly becuase of his personal predelictions, he was devoted to making renderings of fantastic architectural projects--monuments that transcend human scale and purpose or exist only as ruins (a popualr trned at the time with a generation of architechts schooled on Piranesi engravings). His chief employment was as the draftsman for John Soan, in which capacity he was responsible (without much credit in his lifetime) for most of the great architechtural drawings attributed to Soan and his son.

I've scaned about 40 of these and uploaded them here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/Anebo10


Here is a sample:


Bridge over Chaos (1833)

These scans are huge (as much as 4 megabytes): to get the full sized images you have to click on "download photo" to the right of the image.