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Robert William Billings, The Flemish Picture Gallery, the Mansion of Thomas Hope, Duchess Street, Portland Place, c. 1830-1851, watercolor.

Beauty and the Beast; a Satirical Allegory of Thomas Hope and his wife Louisa

Artist: Antoine Dubost (French, 1769-1825)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Oil painting

Collection: Private Collection

Gilded-wood bench, designer Thomas Hope, British, before 1807

From the Met Museum

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▪︎Gilded-wood bench.

Designer: Thomas Hope (British (born Holland), Amsterdam 1769–1831 London)

Date: before 1807

Culture: British

Medium: Gilded mahogany, modern wool cover and silk trims.

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Thomas Hope

Drawings from Ottoman Istanbul

edited by Fani-Maria Tsigakou and Mina Moraitou

Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization, Sharjah 2017, 212 pages, 105 drawings and pictures, ISBN 978-960-476-218-7

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The exhibition presents a rare collection of uniquely intricate, original drawings of Ottoman Istanbul towards the late 18th century created by Thomas Hope (1769-1831), a scion of a wealthy banking family, went on a Grand Tour, the traditional trip to Greece and Turkey for the young men of his class, during the last quarter of the 18th century.

When Hope visited Istanbul, he found a cosmopolitan city that was home to foreigners from Europe and beyond. Their presence, together with that of Muslim, Christian and Jewish subjects of the Ottoman Empire, helped to create the city’s wonderfully multicultural population. Hope drew some of the best-known mosques of the old city. Some of these were captured in individual drawings, while others were sketched towering over the city’s sprawling landscape of buildings. Thomas Hope spent around a year in the city, admiring and drawing the main attractions. His works remained in his library until his death in 1831. They were later sold off at auction by his family. Scholars believed they had been lost, however, they were in fact been purchased in the 1930’s by Antonis Benakis, founder of the Benaki Museum, and kept in the Museum Library.

The Anglo-Arabic translation of the under the same title Greek edition, which was released to the occasion of the exhibition at the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization, from November 2017 to February 2018 in collaboration with Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece

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Sir William Hamilton with Emma Hart at the opening of a tomb at Nola, 1790. Engraving by Ang. Clener after a drawing by Christoph Heinrich Kniep (1748–1825) included as the frontispiece to the first volume of Tischbein, Collection of Engravings from Ancient Vases…

Source: Scan from CVA Great Britain 20 British Museum 10, 2003 (Plate I). The Getty Research Institute, 1397-758. Digital image © The Trustees of the British Museum

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▪︎Regency Egyptian Revival style armchairs and settee.

Maker: Thomas Hope

Place of origin: England

Date: ca. 1802

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The Deepdene, the country house of Thomas Hope

Photo: The Vase Room, Deepdene, Surrey, 1899. From Country Life 5 (20 May 1899) before the sale of the contents and the house.

In 1807, the year after his marriage, Hope bought The Deepdene, a large house set in a hilly wooded landscape of great natural beauty near Dorking in Surrey. Just as he had challenged conventional urban taste with his novel interiors at Duchess Street, he now rethought what a modern country house should look like.

The Deepdene was a red-brick Georgian mansion, dominating not adapting to the scenery of the valley in which it stood. Hope remodelled it with a loggia-topped Italianate tower on which to pivot the whole composition and added a wing shooting out at an angle of 45 degrees on a sloping site. This asymmetrical grouping blended the house into its irregular landscape as recommended by recent theorists of the Picturesque.

These watercolours provide a vivid record of The Deepdene's delectable mingling of architecture and nature, of its conservatories, terraces, garden steps and sculpture galleries.

They were commissioned by John Britton for a book on The Deepdene as an expression of Picturesque theory in the country. This was intended to parallel the book that Britton published in 1827 on Sir John Soane's house, which showed the Picturesque in town. Unfortunately, the book on The Deepdene was never completed.

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in July 1917 Lord Francis sold the Hope art collection (due to insurmountable debts), library, and other contents of Deepdene at the Christie’s auction houses in London. The house and estates were sold a few years later and were eventually converted into offices by British Rail. In 1969 Deepdene suffered the same sad fate as Duchess Street and was demolished. A concrete office block was built on the site.

Read more here about the fate of the Hope Collection 100 years on.

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