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The Aesthetics of Ruins
![The rotunda of the Bank of England in the year of its completion, but depicted as a Roman ruin](http://collections.soane.org/assets/object_images/4/70/11074/v0_soane_fullview.jpg)
by Joseph Gandy.
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![Image of an imposing building in ruins](http://collections.soane.org/assets/object_images/2/78/20/102872/v0_soane_fullview.jpg)
by Joseph Gandy.
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Tempests
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