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Stratton Park, Hampshire, 1803-07
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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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