Today I eavesdropped on an exchange (between Hugh Pearman of the RIBA Journal and Patrick Baty the paint historian - rough company I know) about architectural flights of fantasy, where an artist imagines a building in a different form or setting than the one in which it truly sits, otherwise known as a capriccio.  There is only one great English artist as far as the capriccio is concerned: Joseph Gandy.  There'll be more about Mr Gandy in the book, but until then I leave you with his image of Sir John Soane's Bank of England as a ruin.  It may come as no surprise that the artist died in a private asylum, but given our current situation there is something extraordinary about this image.