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Jam-packed with treasures: the eccentric Sir John Soane’s Museum

The delightfully higgledy-piggledy display of antiquities, filling walls from floor to ceiling, may have been inspired by the Piranesi prints Soane also collected

Some of the many antiquities on display at Sir John Soane’s Museum. [Alamy] 
issue 15 June 2024
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  • John Soane’s Cabinet of Curiosities: Reflections on an Architect and His Collection

    Bruce Boucher

    Yale University Press, pp. 224, £35

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