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
- Country Houses (31)
  - 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 D1/1/22

Purpose

Stratton Park, Hampshire, 1803-07

Aspect

[180] General Plan of Stratton at ground floor level and the outline of Offices as executed

Scale

1/10 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

as above (verso, pencil, Carter), labelled including Line of Fence and Plantation, (pencil, Carter) Line of Fence & Plantation and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1803-07

Medium and dimensions

Pen, crimson, sepia, blue and yellow ochre washes, pencil within ruled border (cut), pricked for transfer on wove paper (750 x 1125)

Hand

Dance, Carter

Watermark

Joseph Ruse Tovill Mill Maidstone 1803

Notes

Dance uses pink, blue and sepia washes to outline his (unfinished) plan for the offices; he often used two or more washes to indicate revisions or alternatives and this method has to be distinguished from the conventions for showing extant and proposed work. However, Dance is inconsistent with those conventions using, for example, the usual grey/sepia for old work and pink/crimson for new on [SM D1/1/14] but reversing this on [SM D1/1/22] and [SM D1/1/17].

The ground floor plan of the house (corresponding to [SM D1/1/17]) seems to be as executed though, for instance, Dance roughs in an alternative stair arrangement for the Hall of Entrance that was not carried out. Here, the wash-house and laundry and the brewhouse correspond to drawing [SM D1/1/14] and were presumably built. The kitchen block is not fully drawn out. The stables are close to [SM D1/1/14] though the layout of the northern end has been amended.

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