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Reference number

SM D2/8/16

Purpose

Lowther Castle, Westmorland?

Aspect

[1] Plans and perspectives for four Castle style designs and two perspectives for Classical designs

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

plans lettered and with key to rooms

Medium and dimensions

Pen sepia wash, pencil on thin wove paper (400 x 275)

Notes

The Castle style designs are for a large, asymmetrical house with a south or south and east aspect added to existing offices (not shown) to the north and west.

Kalman in his review of Stroud's book on George Dance (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, XXXI, No.2, May 1972, pp.154-5) wrote that this drawing 'is not for Lowther Castle'.

REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.71c (where attributed to Dance).

Level

Drawing

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