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Reference number

SM D1/12/21

Purpose

Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1802-08

Aspect

[130] Elevation of four-centred arched window

Scale

Scale 1 Inch to a foot

Inscribed

as above, (Dance) These Shutters to / slide up & down, (Carter) No.3 Windows Deal Casements / Window in Sr. Geor's Painting Room / NB the Back either plaine or Fram'd (Carter) dimensions given and (verso, Dance) Coleorton / Sashes & fittings of Windows in / Sir George's Painting room

Signed and dated

  • 1802-08

Medium and dimensions

Black and brown pen, pencil on coarse buff wove paper (525 x 380)

Hand

Carter, Dance

Notes

Beaumont's painting room was on the second floor above the entrance hall; a section, [SM D1/11/32], has this room labelled 'Sir George's Painting room'. The casement window has six panes (the upper panes shaped ) and is 5 feet 9 inches high. Below it is a single panel that rises 3 feet 6 inches from the floor to the height of the dado rail. Not easy to see from the drawing, the window is centrally hung and opens inwards. Dance's instruction that the shutters are to slide up and down was detailed by the joiner, James Carter in the following drawing.

The earliest vertical sliding shutters known to Frank Kelsall (letter, 14 June 1999) are those on the second floor at Marble Hill House and date from the Roger Morris works of the 1720s.

For an outline elevation of the painting room and other windows, see [SM D1/12/48] verso.

Verso
Unfinished full size detail of handrail?
Pen, crimson wash, pencil

Level

Drawing

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