Sir John Soane’s Rotunda of the Bank of England in Ruins, painting by Joseph Gandy, 1789. The painting evokes Shelly’s sonnet Ozymandias, “Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair!”

Sir John Soane’s Rotunda of the Bank of England in Ruins, painting by Joseph Gandy, 1789. The painting evokes Shelly’s sonnet Ozymandias, “Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair!”