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Reference number

SM volume 19/1

Purpose

Design for a villa on a triangular plan, c.1757-8

Aspect

[1] Plans of ground and first floors

Scale

1/8 in to 1ft

Inscribed

(Dance the Elder) Ground Floor, 1 Pr of Stairs Floor, rooms labelled Vestibule, Parlour, Study, Dining Room, Anti Rooms and Bedchamber (three times) and dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • c.1757-8

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pink wash on laid paper (335 x 190)

Hand

Dance, inscribed by Dance the Elder

Notes

The writing seems (on a comparison with, for example, Mansion House [SM 16/49) to be in Dance the Elder's hand. The entrance is set in a segmental front (the only curved external wall) flanked by short wings leading to a circular drawing room and (on the first floor) a bedchamber, each with a diameter of 20 feet 3 inches and with two alcoves of which one contains a fireplace. Except for the front door, the floor plans are identical. Thus the parlour and bedroom above it are 13 feet by 18 feet 6 inches; the apsidal-ended vestibule and anteroom above it measure 11 by 8 feet, the study and bedchamber over it are 13 by 10 feet. The stair is in a stretched elliptical compartment measuring 17 by 8 feet, the treads drawn incorrectly so that, for example, the stair goes across a door opening.

Level

Drawing

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