Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1802-08

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1802-08

Browse

Books

George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
- Country Houses (31)
  - Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1802-08 (170). Builder's letter, survey drawings, alternative designs, record drawing, preliminary design, design and working drawings for Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM D1/13/13

Purpose

Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1802-08

Aspect

[133] Details of Moldings of cornice full size for the Drawing room & Library ^Boudoir.

Scale

full size

Inscribed

as above, Coleorton and For Mr Thomas
Signed: GD
Dated: May (written over April) 15^th 1806

Signed and dated

1802-08

Medium and dimensions

Pen, partly pricked for transfer on laid paper (360 x 485)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

D & C Blauw

Notes

The cornice mouldings for drawing room, library and boudoir or breakfast room (room labelling varies) are as executed though the library cornice is deeper and was presumably added to later. 'Mr Thomas' is perhaps the same person referred to as 'Mr Thoma Plasterer' on full size details of plasterwork for Stratton Park ([SM D1/3/3] verso).

Verso
Plan of Polygon Hall at gallery level with two piers A and B marked
Scale: ¾ Scale
Inscribed: as above, Coleorton, Polygon Hall, I want the exact length between A & B / M^r. Carter to take it from the Moldings as fixed / from Angle A to Angle B / figure is in Ink on this drawing. The length of these sides of Polygon / from Angle to Angle as the / moldings are fix'd and Diameter to the outside of bar / 12^Ft 0ⁱⁿ
Black and brown pencil

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).