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Reference number

SM D1/4/9

Purpose

Stratton Park, Hampshire, 1803-07

Aspect

[126] Plan, elevation and section, with rough elevation, perspective and details of variant designs to the pylon-like form

Scale

Scale 2 Ins to a Foot

Inscribed

as above and dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 1803-07

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia wash, pencil, watercolour technique on laid paper (395 x 675)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

D & C Blauw and fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and WR below

Notes

The chimney-piece is now 5 feet 1 inch wide at the shelf instead of 5 feet 10 inches ([SM D1/3/16]) and the sides are monolithic, that is, the stepped arrangement of the previous drawing has gone. Incised Greek fret, symmetrically arranged, decorates the lintel and the opening is framed by incised lines that end, a foot above the floor, with a fringe-like 'beads on strings' ornament. Dance, in the rough pencil designs, experiments with more strongly modelled and stepped pylon-like forms.

Verso
Rough elevation with two Egyptian columns and antae with door and window openings
Pencil
Kalman (p.351, n.15) notes that this 'sketch for a bistyle-in-antis Egyptian portico ...' suggests that Dance also considered using this more "primitive" mode for Stratton Park. However, it probably relates to a preliminary design for the Beauford Square front of the Theatre Royal in Bath ([SM D3/8/3] verso).

Level

Drawing

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