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Reference number
SM D1/2/25
Purpose
Stratton Park, Hampshire, 1803-07
Aspect
[75] Perspective of Ionic screen, gallery and a stair
Scale
½ in to 1 ft
Inscribed
(verso, Carter) Section Hall of Entrance / (Dance) a perspective sketch
Signed and dated
- 1803-07
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil, sepia wash on laid paper (510 x 670)
Hand
Dance, Carter
Watermark
D&CBxX in cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis
Notes
One pilaster and part of another are shown (see [SM D1/2/9], [SM D1/2/19], [SM D1/2/20], [SM D1/2/13] and [SM D1/2/8], unexecuted scheme with pilasters) and also the matching antae of the Ionic screen, which were executed. A treatment for the gallery is roughed in, showing it with arched openings at each end and a barrel-vaulted ceiling. The Ionic capitals have a fluted or reeded neck roughed in. Banded rustication (as on [SM D1/2/20], [SM D1/2/13] and [SM D1/2/22]) is shown.
By placing the stairs on the east and west walls Dance ensured that the first view on entry was of the north wall, crowned by a screen with four Ionic columns, the wall below pierced by two doors leading to the rooms in the lower storey. Either side of the gallery behind the Ionic screen, a wide corridor led to the existing rooms on the west side and eastwards to the Hall of Communication that gave access to the new reception rooms and the remodelled dining room on the north side.
REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.65a
By placing the stairs on the east and west walls Dance ensured that the first view on entry was of the north wall, crowned by a screen with four Ionic columns, the wall below pierced by two doors leading to the rooms in the lower storey. Either side of the gallery behind the Ionic screen, a wide corridor led to the existing rooms on the west side and eastwards to the Hall of Communication that gave access to the new reception rooms and the remodelled dining room on the north side.
REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.65a
Level
Drawing
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