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Reference number
SM D3/13/1
Purpose
Unexecuted variant designs for an unidentified monumental entrance to a park
Aspect
[2] Variant elevation
Scale
to a scale
Medium and dimensions
Pen, green earth, blue, raw umber and sepia washes, watercolour technique on laid paper (225 x 470)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
J Whatman
Notes
Dance keeps the pyramids, urns and plinth / wall of his first design but adds in the centre an elaborate gateway, tent-like with a circular roof and a scalloped parapet over an entrance with archaic inward-sloping jambs. The rather exuberant structure is topped by a crown that (except for six instead of five knobs) is like an earl's coronet. Kalman (p.375, n.43) describes the central building as a 'Chinese crowned portal'. The combination of Egyptian, Greek, Chinese (or Indian) and archaic forms is remarkably free.
For another pyramdal design.
REPRODUCED, Stroud fig.76a, captioned 'Monument to General George Washington'.
For another pyramdal design.
REPRODUCED, Stroud fig.76a, captioned 'Monument to General George Washington'.
Level
Drawing
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