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Reference number

SM D1/15/13

Purpose

22 Arlington Street, near St James's Park, Westminster, 1792

Aspect

[1] Plans, elevation, sections and FS details

Scale

1/8 in to 1 in and FS

Inscribed

Chimney piece / For Lord Eardleys / Dining Room / Arlington Street / Mr Van Gelder, labelled Plan of Soffite, Soffite of Mantel, Plan of Pilaster & Jamb and finishing of Wall, dimensions given, calculations and (verso) To Mr Dance Architect / Upper Gower Street No 29 (Dance lived at No. 51, now 91) Signed: Geo Dance Dated: Augst 28th 1792

Signed and dated

  • 1792

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia wash, pencil, shaded on coarse buff laid paper (670 x 575)

Hand

Dance

Verso

Sums, diagrams perhaps for a child? Pen

Notes

The chimney-piece design is characterised by twin pilasters with acanthus brackets supporting the shelf and an opening framed by torus and astragal mouldings. Peter Mathias Vangelder (1739-1809) was a distinguished statuary particularly good at carving foliage (R. Gunnis, Dictionary of British sculptors 1660-1851, and ed [1964]).

Level

Drawing

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