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Reference number
SM D1/3/3
Purpose
Stratton Park, Hampshire, 1803-07
Aspect
[165] Survey plan of first floor room on S front in the old building with two windows, measuring 24 by 16½ with ceiling heights of 16..8 and 15..6 and unrelated section
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
labelled Cieling, line of Plaster, floor, dimensions given and (Dance) Window
Signed and dated
- 1803-07
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (605 x 470)
Hand
Carter, Dance
Watermark
D&CBxX in cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis
Notes
C. R. Cockerell's sketch record plan (in 'Ichnographia Domestica', see the general notes below) made in 1823 shows a room corresponding to [SM SM D1/3/3] and [SM D1/3/28] and labelled 'Sir Thos Bg' - Sir Francis having died some years before. Conveniently placed next to the new back stair, it may have been a business room since, again on Cockerell's plan, the old west wing is marked 'Sir Thos & Lady B's Bed Ro: / dressing Ro &c &c / abo: 95 feet'.
Whichever room it was that Sir Francis Baring (a widower from 1804) slept in, Farington noted in his diary (18 December 1807) that 'Sir Francis usually rises at half past 9 in the morning; breakfasts ¼ past 10; dines ¼ past 6; eats gruel at Eleven, and goes to bed, the last of His company, at half past Eleven or towards twelve o' Clock. He is an Advocate for long rest'.
Verso
Pilaster Mouldings full size for Hall of Communication
Inscribed: as above, springing line of Ceiling, Side of Pilaster, Wall line when finsh'd, Room adjoining / the Wainscot Stairs, For Mr Thomas Plasterer and (pencil, Carter) Hall of Communication
Pen
Carter seems to have re-used one of Dance's drawings. 'Mr Thomas Plasterer' may be the same person referred to as 'Mr Thomas' on a full-size detail for mouldings at Coleorton, dated 15 May 1806 ([SM D1/3/5]).
Whichever room it was that Sir Francis Baring (a widower from 1804) slept in, Farington noted in his diary (18 December 1807) that 'Sir Francis usually rises at half past 9 in the morning; breakfasts ¼ past 10; dines ¼ past 6; eats gruel at Eleven, and goes to bed, the last of His company, at half past Eleven or towards twelve o' Clock. He is an Advocate for long rest'.
Verso
Pilaster Mouldings full size for Hall of Communication
Inscribed: as above, springing line of Ceiling, Side of Pilaster, Wall line when finsh'd, Room adjoining / the Wainscot Stairs, For Mr Thomas Plasterer and (pencil, Carter) Hall of Communication
Pen
Carter seems to have re-used one of Dance's drawings. 'Mr Thomas Plasterer' may be the same person referred to as 'Mr Thomas' on a full-size detail for mouldings at Coleorton, dated 15 May 1806 ([SM D1/3/5]).
Level
Drawing
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