Theatre Royal, Beauford Square, Bath, 1804-5

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
- Public buildings (3)
  - Theatre Royal, Beauford Square, Bath, 1804-5 (15). Designs for the Beauford Square front and for the interior for John Palmer

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Reference number

SM D3/8/15

Purpose

Theatre Royal, Beauford Square, Bath, 1804-5

Aspect

[9] Sketch part perspective with details of arabesque and Vitruvian scroll decoration of proscenium frame, rough perspective of gallery and rough details of corbel

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

(on coved cornice) THE WORLDS A STAGE and (later hand, pencil) See back also Verso Longitudinal elevation/section showing slender, gilded 'palm tree' columns and spandrels to the gallery, the balcony fronts decorated with festoons, wreaths and lyres and hanging lamps, and proscenium door Scale: ¼ in to 1 ft Inscribed: some dimensions given Pen, crimson, burnt umber, yellow and green earth washes, pencil The 'palm trees', if that is what they are, are less naturalstic than John Webb's early use of them for an unexecuted design for a bed alcove at Greenwich Palace, 1665, engraved by John Vardy in Some designs of Mr Inigo Jones ... (1744, plate 4) and more akin to those in John Nash's Great Kitchen at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, 1816. REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.70c.

Signed and dated

1804-5

Medium and dimensions

Pen, crimson, yellow, burnt umber and blue washes, pencil on laid paper (630 x 485)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

D&C Blauw and fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and WR below

Notes

Again, Dance includes an old fashioned proscenium with a coved cornice and doors.
REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.70b

Level

Drawing

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