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Reference number
SM D1/12/34
Purpose
Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1802-08
Aspect
[131] Details of mouldings
Scale
full size
Inscribed
Bas Molding full size in front / of Sir George's Painting room, Half the Piers of Sir George's Painting room, Top of Coping of Parapet and (Carter) Plan of Sash Frames, Frame for Shutters / and Linings Sir Georges Painting Room, The Capping on top of those Shutters to be fixed / as the Cappings at Farm House, If there should not be room / enough to take those two Frames / and Side Lining do not cut the / Brick work away but reduce the / width of the Lining marked / A, labelled (Carter) Part of Sash, Shutters with Gothic Head, Shutter, Window Back and (verso, Dance) Plan of half one one of the Piers / of the room at top of the Bow / & the Base Molding in front of the same / full size and Coleorton / Sir George's Painting room / Sash Frame / Frame for Shutter / lining
Signed and dated
- 1802-08
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pink wash, pencil on laid paper (670 x 1020)
Hand
Dance, Carter
Watermark
D & C Blauw IV and D&CBxX in cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis
Notes
The joiner's part of this working drawing for the three windows within the projecting chamfered bay of the painting room includes details of vertically sliding shutters, one leaf of which is labelled 'Shutters with Gothic Head', so the upper part of the shutter would have matched in profile the arched window head. The shutters are not in use now (1999) but, sealed in by many subsequent coats of paint, probably still remain in their box.
The 'Farm House' referred to by Carter was the recently built Hall Farm, in which Sir George Beaumont and his wife stayed while Coleorton was being built; Dance also stayed there (Stroud p.199) as did William Wordsworth and his family and sister Dorothy (see [SM D1/12/53] verso).
Dance told Joseph Farington (6 January 1808) that 'In the morning, Sir George painted or rode out with His sketch book, & in the evening He put on His spectacles and again went on with His sketching. I asked Dance what He thought of sketches of that kind. He said "They were very well to amuse an Amateur, and exhibited considerable dexterity in practise, but it was the sort of thing that Ten thousand persons might do if disposed to adopt the practise...".
The 'Farm House' referred to by Carter was the recently built Hall Farm, in which Sir George Beaumont and his wife stayed while Coleorton was being built; Dance also stayed there (Stroud p.199) as did William Wordsworth and his family and sister Dorothy (see [SM D1/12/53] verso).
Dance told Joseph Farington (6 January 1808) that 'In the morning, Sir George painted or rode out with His sketch book, & in the evening He put on His spectacles and again went on with His sketching. I asked Dance what He thought of sketches of that kind. He said "They were very well to amuse an Amateur, and exhibited considerable dexterity in practise, but it was the sort of thing that Ten thousand persons might do if disposed to adopt the practise...".
Level
Drawing
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