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Reference number
SM D1/1/5
Purpose
Stratton Park, Hampshire, 1803-07
Aspect
[13] Front elevation unfinished
Scale
1/7 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
dimensions given with the overall width marked 139Feet,,10½in and (verso) money calculations totalling 2668.5.5
Signed and dated
- 1803-07
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil on laid paper (305 x 600)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
D & C Blauw and fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and WR below
Notes
Both [SM D1/1/2] and [SM D1/1/5] show the end windows of the piano nobile with the same 12 by 5 feet dimensions as the other piano nobile windows but emphasised by a blind arch rather than the Serlian window that had been employed by Sanderson and was re-used by Dance in [SM D1/1/11], [SM D1/1/15] and [SM D1/110].
Kalman (p.160) notes that the use of an arch is an anachronism since the arch form was 'unknown to the Greeks at the time when the early Doric temples were built. John Soane, who had done the same thing at Sydney Lodge [1793-5], later denounced the practice in an attack on the facade of Robert Smirke's new Covent Garden Theatre, a composition owing much to Stratton.' Soane's criticism of Smirke's theatre was made in his fourth lecture at the Royal Academy 1810.
Kalman (p.160) notes that the use of an arch is an anachronism since the arch form was 'unknown to the Greeks at the time when the early Doric temples were built. John Soane, who had done the same thing at Sydney Lodge [1793-5], later denounced the practice in an attack on the facade of Robert Smirke's new Covent Garden Theatre, a composition owing much to Stratton.' Soane's criticism of Smirke's theatre was made in his fourth lecture at the Royal Academy 1810.
Level
Drawing
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