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Reference number
SM D1/4/40
Purpose
Stratton Park, Hampshire, 1803-07
Aspect
[100] Elevation and sections of Ionic capital
Scale
full size
Inscribed
(verso, Dance) Elevation of Front of Ionic Capital full size / Entrance Hall / Stratton
Signed and dated
- 1803-07
Medium and dimensions
Brown and red pen, sepia and light red washes, pencil, shaded, trace lines, pricked for transfer on wove paper (570 x 865)
Hand
Dance
Notes
This is beautifully finished and, in the manner of many of Dance's 'technical' drawings, very legible. The Ionic capital with egg and dart, anthemion and a disc-like eye is probably based on the Ionic order from the Temple of Ilissus, illustrated in J. Stuart & N. Revett, The Antiquities of Athens, volume I, 1762, chapter II, plates I-VIII, though with an extra spiral to the volute and with a plain shaft. Dance owned a set of The Antiquities of Athens volumes.
Level
Drawing
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