£15

Cities, like people, are full of contradictions. They promise order but grow through chaos. They are built on careful plans, yet shaped by imagination and memory. Cities, like dreams, a collaboration between Daniel Crouch Rare Books and Michael Hoppen Gallery for TEFAF Maastricht 2026, explores how cities have been pictured and understood across three centuries - how they have been drawn from above and experienced from within.

The exhibition brings two very different ways of seeing together. Monumental eighteenth‑century town plans - made at a time when faith in reason and measurement was at its height - are shown next to Sohei Nishino’s large‑scale photographic dioramas, dreamlike reconstructions of the same cities created from thousands of individual photographs. These pairings reveal what the city has always been: both a system and an emotion, something that can be mapped and yet never truly contained.

£350,000

By BLAEU, Willem Janszoon, 1602 [but c1621].

Out of stock
£60,000

By HOEFNAGEL, Jacob; Claes Jansz VISSCHER, 1640.

£7,500

By WENING, Michael; after Ludwig Nicolaus von HALLART, 1684.

£25,000

By HUBER, Joseph Daniel von, [1778].

£70,000

By JAILLOT, Alex Hubert, 1678.

£40,000

By JAILLOT, Alex Hubert, 1699.

£75,000

By UGHI, Lodovico, 1729.

£40,000

By NOLLI, Giovanni Battista, 1748].

Out of stock
£4,000

By ARROWSMITH, Aaron, November, 1st, 1802.