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Design for an unidentified country house, c.1771?
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Reference number
SM D2/8/24
Purpose
Design for an unidentified country house, c.1771?
Aspect
[1] Elevation of North Front showing a screen wall
Scale
to a scale, perhaps 1/8 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
as above
Signed and dated
- c.1771?
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, sepia, raw umber, green earth, blue and crimson washes, white highlight,
watercolour technique, shaded within single ruled and sepia wash border on wove paper (275 x 1305)
Hand
Dance
Notes
The elevation, like [SM D2/8/25], is carefully rendered and with trees and sky added. The house is washed in sepia and drawn with restraint so as to emphasise the screen wall tinted in a Bath stone-like colour with ashlar masonry.
The house consists of a three-storey centre of five bays with a canted centre bay and two-storey wings. It is fronted by a wall with a four-columned Doric porte-cochere flanked by blind pavilions with twin aediculed alcoves while pilasters, two solid gates and pavilion ends further articulate this long screen wall. Dance has drawn a horse and carriage passing through the porte-cochere in front of a plain, solid door. An initial impression is that this might be a design for a screen to an existing house and certainly the wall is the point of the drawing and suggests a household requiring seclusion.
Literature updated April 2024.
The house consists of a three-storey centre of five bays with a canted centre bay and two-storey wings. It is fronted by a wall with a four-columned Doric porte-cochere flanked by blind pavilions with twin aediculed alcoves while pilasters, two solid gates and pavilion ends further articulate this long screen wall. Dance has drawn a horse and carriage passing through the porte-cochere in front of a plain, solid door. An initial impression is that this might be a design for a screen to an existing house and certainly the wall is the point of the drawing and suggests a household requiring seclusion.
Literature updated April 2024.
Literature
F. Sands, Fanciful Figures: people in architectural drawings, 2024, p. 27
Level
Drawing
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