Sir Robert Taylor Part 1 - Designs for Church Monuments.

 

Illustrations and brief notes.

A Book of Designs in Pen and Ink and Watercolours at the Taylorian Institute, Oxford.

Photographed by the author 14 August 2019.

I am very grateful to staff at the Taylorian Institute for allowing me access and to photograph this group of exquisite drawings.

This is the largest surviving group of drawings by a sculptor in the mid 18th Century.

There is a small group of drawings by Henry Cheere at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

For a useful introduction to Taylor see -  Binney, Marcus. Sir Robert Taylor : from Rococo to Neoclassicism. London: Allen & Unwin, 1984.

As far as I know no one has attempted an in depth biography and I will not attempt to do so here -

the purpose of this website is to illustrate and discuss English sculpture of the 18th century - I will of course touch on the work of Taylor as an architect and property developer but here is not the place to go into detail - I will leave that to others.

https://englisheighteenthcenturychimneypiece.blogspot.com/2025/02/sir-robert-taylor-drawings-in-taylorian.html

For an interesting article on speculative building by Henry Cheere and Robert Taylor see -

https://georgiangroup.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GGJ_2002_13-GARNIER.pdf

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