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Reference number

SM volume 19/7

Purpose

Scheme B. Design for a 'Gentleman's Country Seat', c.1757-8

Aspect

[3] N elevation

Scale

1/6 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

North Elevation of a Design for a Gentleman's Country Seat

Signed and dated

  • c.1757-8

Medium and dimensions

Pen, yellow ochre, sepia and blue washes, shaded on laid paper (380 x 460)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

I*Portal and fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and LVG

Notes

The elevation shows a three-storey, nine-bay front with unfluted Ionic tetrastyle portico approached by six steps and crowned by a pediment, with unadorned windows and an emphatic cornice below the top floor.

An elevation in the RIBA Drawings Collection (Dance Leoni No.12) is very close to that catalogued here.

Level

Drawing

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