
Conversation 3 — Dulwich Picture Gallery — Soane in The Colour Palace
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The Life and Times of James King
A collection of some of his favorite tombs sort of colliding together we've got the classic i would say that's a sort of roman pyramid which is obviously going off the Egyptian pyramid top death architecture there in some of the deadest architecture ever invented. He said the only mark of a good building is how it will be as a ruin and this is his portrayal before it was built of what it would be like as a ruin. His brother older by 12 years he's who he's writing back to is still a hold carrier which is the guy who carries the the bricks up the ladder which is not even one of the better jobs in a bricklayer's yard but anyway it must have
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