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Reference number
SM D1/15/10
Purpose
Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1802-08
Aspect
[166] Plan, elevation and details of dining room chimney-piece in blue and grey marble with sunk panelled jambs and slab-like lintel and a fire basket, and part-plan and elevation of wall showing chimney-piece and alcoves
Scale
½ in to 1 ft, 2 in to 1ft and full size
Inscribed
For the Dining room / Coleorton Hall, Plan of one of the Pilasters full size, Molding round Mantle full size, Plan of molding round Mantle sull size, Plan of the top of Mantle and dimensions given
Signed: GD
Dated: May 30th 1806
Signed and dated
- 1802-08
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia, blue, light red and yellow washes, pencil on laid paper (485 x 680)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
D & C Blauw and fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and WR below
Notes
D. Stillman, in describing the development of chimney-piece design from Adamesque to an increasing simplicity, gives the example of Dance who in his later designs, used scarcely any decoration at all, 'only slightly recessed panels and the most imperceptible of mouldngs' (D. Stillman, English Neo-Classical architecture, 1988, p.518).
The present dining room chimney-piece is a white-painted, wooden Neo-Adam affair over grey marble slips.
REPRODUCED. D. Stillman, English Neo-Classical architecture, 1988, fig.386.
The present dining room chimney-piece is a white-painted, wooden Neo-Adam affair over grey marble slips.
REPRODUCED. D. Stillman, English Neo-Classical architecture, 1988, fig.386.
Level
Drawing
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