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  • image SM D1/1/23, SM D1/3/29

Reference number

SM D1/1/23, SM D1/3/29

Purpose

Stratton Park, Hampshire, 1803-07

Aspect

[29] Plan of attic floor and small part of old building with some details of roof structure and longitudinal section of compound beam or girder

Scale

½ in to 1 ft

Inscribed

labelled (pencil) Girders to Drawing Room Floor, (pencil, Carter) Trap Door / in Cieling of /Ditto, (pencil) Scantling of Quarters 3 x 4 / Posts & Beams 4 x 4, chimney flues labelled South room / ground floor / under Library, Library, Hall of / Communication / flue, Drawing room / flue, Billiard room / flue, dimensions given and calculations and (verso, Dance) Plan of Attics / Stratton

Signed and dated

  • 1803-07

Medium and dimensions

Pen, Indian red, sepia and raw umber washes, pencil, pricked for transfer on laid paper, formerly two sheets joined (subsequently separated and each sheet given individual Soane Museum numbers) (745 x 610, 780 x 565)

Hand

Dance, Carter

Watermark

D & C Blauw IV (twice) and D&CBxX in cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis

Notes

Dance has reconsidered the roof framing over the Hall of Communication and now has, for example, girders instead of flitches that are 20 feet 8 inches long.

Level

Drawing

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

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