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Design for a town house, c.1757-8 (1)
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Reference number
SM volume 19/5
Purpose
Design for a town house, c.1757-8 (1)
Aspect
[1] Front elevation
Scale
1/8 in to 1ft
Signed and dated
- c.1757-8
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pink, sepia, raw umber, blue and red washes, pencil within single ruled and wash border on laid paper. (460 x 355)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
I*Portal and fleur-de lis in crowned cartouche and LVG
Notes
The design - drawn on an illusionistic scrolled sheet held down by pins (or tacks) - shows a plain, five-bay, three-storey house over a raised basement with a pedimented door approached by six steps.
The design is restrained with plain windows relieved only by sills on the upper floors and a pedimented door of the sort that the elder Dance might have designed.
It seems that this is another of Dance's juvenile productions made as part of his early training under his father. Like his design for a temple on a trefoil plan [SM volume 19/4], it is drawn as though on scrolled paper fixed by nails and alarmingly, the chimneys at each end have flames as well as smoke erupting from them.
The design is restrained with plain windows relieved only by sills on the upper floors and a pedimented door of the sort that the elder Dance might have designed.
It seems that this is another of Dance's juvenile productions made as part of his early training under his father. Like his design for a temple on a trefoil plan [SM volume 19/4], it is drawn as though on scrolled paper fixed by nails and alarmingly, the chimneys at each end have flames as well as smoke erupting from them.
Level
Drawing
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