Stratton Park, Hampshire, 1803-07

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
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  - Stratton Park, Hampshire, 1803-07 (186). Survey drawings, preliminary designs, presentation design not as executed, revised design and working drawings for reconstruction for Sir Francis Baring Bart

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Reference number

SM D1/3/11

Purpose

Stratton Park, Hampshire, 1803-07

Aspect

[136] N/S section showing the decoration of the W wall, full size detail of an acanthus and lily bracket ornament between architrave and cornice and rough details of alternative bracket ornament

Scale

½ in to 1 ft and full size

Inscribed

NB The figures are right but the / whole height of room is drawn / 2 In^s too much (crossed out) high, (Carter, pencil) Glass, dimensions given and (verso, Dance) Section of Library / & / Sketch of one of the caps / of small pilasters at large / Stratton

Signed and dated

1803-07

Medium and dimensions

Pen, raw umber, green earth and light red washes, pencil on wove paper (580 x 855)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

J Whatman

Notes

The figures (lightly brushed with raw umber and green earth washes) on dark brown panels are in a Pompeian style. The subjects are, for example, birds eating fruit out of a tassa and single nymphs in floating dresses bearing gifts. (See the note on painted decoration in Appendix 1.)

Level

Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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