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Reference number

SM D1/11/22

Purpose

Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1802-08

Aspect

[55] Elevation of W front without porte-cochere, plan of W wall and full size detail of Base Molding at B

Scale

Scale ¼ inch / to the Foot and full size

Inscribed

as above, Coleorton Hall, dimensions given, The Turrets to be in every respect the (cut) / as the others now done, The coping C to be the same all rou(cut) and (verso, Dance) West Front

Signed and dated

  • 1802-08

Medium and dimensions

Black and red pen, pink, sepia, blue and yellow washes, pencil on laid paper (395 x 600)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

D&CBxX in cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis

Notes

While Dance's east front has single square-headed windows and the south front triple square-headed windows, the west (entrance) front has equilaterally arched ground and first floor windows enclosed within corresponding blind arches either side of a canted centre bay with lancet-arched openings (and fronted by a porte-cochere with a four-centred arch). The painting room on the second floor has four-centred windows.

The notes that the coping and turrets are to be 'the same all rou[nd]' and 'as the others now done' suggest possible problems with the building programme, as do other notes on, for example, drawing [SM D1/10/28].

See [SM D1/11/31].

REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.59a.

Level

Drawing

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