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Reference number
SM D1/12/47
Purpose
Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1802-08
Aspect
[134] Details of Mouldings full size for large folding Doors between Drawing room and Library
Scale
full size
Inscribed
as above, labelled including Plan of Guttae, Top of Pilaster, Side of Pilaster, Door, Sofite, Section and (verso, Dance) Coleorton / Moldings full size for / large Folding doors between Library / and Drawing room
Signed and dated
- 1802-08
Medium and dimensions
Pen and raw umber wash, pencil on laid paper (665 x 1020)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
D & C Blauw IV and D&CBxX in cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis
Notes
The bold guttae above panelled pilasters that frame the door opening are also found on Dance's design for a chimney-piece for the drawing room ([SM D1/15/12]). The curved soffit detail is admirable.
The folding doors have now (1999) gone and a National Monuments Record photograph of 1971 shows a conventional two-leafed door. A letter by Dance written to Lord Londonderry in 1804 describes large folding doors that allow two or more rooms to be thrown into one when needed (see Mount Stewart, County Down, [SM D3/9/1a]. The example Dance gives in his letter is for a door opening 8 feet wide; the door between the library and drawing room at Coleorton is 7 feet wide.
The folding doors have now (1999) gone and a National Monuments Record photograph of 1971 shows a conventional two-leafed door. A letter by Dance written to Lord Londonderry in 1804 describes large folding doors that allow two or more rooms to be thrown into one when needed (see Mount Stewart, County Down, [SM D3/9/1a]. The example Dance gives in his letter is for a door opening 8 feet wide; the door between the library and drawing room at Coleorton is 7 feet wide.
Level
Drawing
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