Spired Gothic Monument
1797 (?)
Medium
Pen and ink, brush and wash, over graphite
Dimensions
Sheet: 24 7/16 × 13 15/16 in. (62 × 35.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008
Accession Number
2018.839.10
Art Historical Context
Joseph Michael Gandy's *Spired Gothic Monument*1797?) is a captivating architectural fantasy from the late 18th, showcasing the artist's imaginative flair for Gothic Revival motifs. Gandy, a British architect draughtsman closely associated with Sir John Soane, specialized in evocative visions of grand, often ruined structures that blended historical reverence with Romantic whimsy. Created during a period of growing fascination with medieval architecture in Britain—amid the Gothic Revival—this drawing imagines a towering monument adorned with intricate spires, evoking the sublime mystery of cat...