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Stratton Park, Hampshire, c.1807
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Reference number
SM D1/8/7
Purpose
Stratton Park, Hampshire, c.1807
Aspect
[3] Plan and elevation
Scale
1/8 in to 1 ft
Signed and dated
- c.1807
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia, green earth, blue, pink, raw umber and burnt umber washes, watercolour technique within double-ruled and wash border on laid paper (460 x 620)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
D & C Blauw and fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and WR below
Notes
Drawn by Dance and nicely finished with sky and trees, the design is for a gateway with polygonal piers or 'turrets' flanked by screen walls linked by quadrant curves to twin lodges. Behind the screen wall, either side of the gateway, are colonnades completed at each end by a loggia. The pedimented lodges have panelled pilasters near their corners and a single central chimney. The gateway has Vitruvian scroll cresting symmetrically arranged around a central palmette (in an Indian manner) and the caps to the piers are decorated with antefixae. The composition of lodges, wall and gate is more than 140 feet wide; subsequent schemes reduced the amount of wall, to the detriment of the design.
REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.67b.
REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.67b.
Level
Drawing
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