Sketches in architecture: containing plans and elevations of cottages, villas, and other useful buildings, with characteristic scenery
A late eighteenth-century architectural pattern book by John Soane and George Isham Parkyns, published in 1798, presenting plans and elevations of cottages, villas and useful buildings for builders and patrons of the period. The four plates are sepia-toned aquatint-style views of classical houses set in cloudy skies and trees, shown rotated on the page. A designer might take their tonal shading, dramatic cloud masses and framing of buildings by foliage as a model for atmospheric architectural scenes.
