It is important to briefly note a facet of the origins of this visualisation project: initially, the study of Jefferson, Soane, and Cosway was initiated to better understand transatlantic design operations around the turn of the nineteenth century and, by extension, to try and understand how Jefferson’s Monticello and Soane’s Museum could share so many parallels in their fabrication, form, and collections despite the fact that the two architects never met. A diagrammatic ‘map’ featuring the connections between Jefferson, Soane, and Cosway was initially constructed on large sheets of tracing paper, quickly taped together, with markers as a way to keep complex and ever growing shared network of this triumvirate. Used as a notational tool, it became clear that this network map had significant value beyond its initial process-driven construction: it was a previously unexplored visualisation of the social, geographical, and professional connections between some of the most notable figures of the Atlantic world in the late 1700s and early 1800s. As the study of the network continues to evolve and find its way into a digitised form, it is expected that a larger database will be developed for other researchers to add members and activities to the network, thereby crowdsourcing content to build a more robust picture of the network, its participants, and its impacts. f References Cook, E. H. Epistolary bodies: gender and genre in the eighteenth-century republic of letters. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996 Darley, G. ‘The Grand Tour’. In M. A. Stevens & R. Margaret (Eds.), John Soane, architect: master of space and light (pp. 96-113). London: Royal Academy of Arts distributed by Yale University Press, 1999 Flavell, J. When London was capital of America . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010 Fraser, M. Architecture and the special relationship: the American influence on post-war British architecture . London: Routledge, 2007 Graves, A. The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, etc . London: George Bell & Sons, 1905 Hindley, M. ‘Mapping the Republic of Letters’. Humanities , 34(6), online edition from the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2013 Jefferson, T. Notes on the State of Virginia . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1955 Latour, B. Reassembling the social: an introduction to actor-network-theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 Locke, J. The Works of John Locke . (9th ed.). London, 1794 Pevsner, N. Academies of art past and present. New York, NY: De Capo Press, 1973 Private Correspondence. Archives of Sir John Soane’s Museum. Sir John Soane’s Museum, London. Shuffelton, I., Baridon, M., & Chevignard, B. Travelling in the republic of letters . Publications Universite de Bourgogne, 1988. 66, 1-16. Soane, J. Memoirs on the Professional Life of an Architect Between the Years 1768 and 1835 . London: James Moyes Castle Street Leicster Square, Privately Printed, Not Published, 1835 Sterne, L. A sentimental journey through France and Italy, by Mr Yorick (3rd ed.). London: T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1768 Trumbull, J. Autobiography, reminiscences and letters of John Trumbull, from 1756 to 1841. New York, NY: Wiley and Putnam, 1841 Upton, D. Architecture in the United States . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998 Winterer, C. ‘Where is America in the Republic of Letters’. Modern Intellectual History , 9(3), 2012. 597-623. Yaneva, A. The making of a building: a pragmatist approach to architecture. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009
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