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Reference number

SM D3/8/4

Purpose

Theatre Royal, Beauford Square, Bath, 1804-5

Aspect

[3] Elevation of five-bay centre showing a frieze of festoons (modelled on those at Tivoli) alternating with masks set in square frames and centred above panelled pilasters; above the parapet, three pediments with antefixae, the centre one, crowned with the Royal Arms, the end pediments each with a lyre

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Verso Rough details of stele and frieze-cornice to a larger scale and slight elevation with temple front Pencil The unfinished nature of the drawing may explain the lack of an architrave.

Signed and dated

  • 1804-5

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, hatching on laid paper (315 x 460)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and WR below

Notes

Dance uses an entablature in which the architrave is no more than a delicate moulding. But it is not quite an elided entablature, the earliest and most significant example of which was employed in his church of All Hallows. The stele detail of a pediment with antefixae or 'end stops' above a panelled plinth is one of Dance's most characteristic decorative motifs while the lyre, an attribute of the Muses, was used by Dance, for example as a carved relief on the front of the Shakespeare Gallery, 1788-9.

Level

Drawing

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