Stratton Park, Hampshire, c.1807

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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, c.1807 (18). Preliminary designs, presentation design and working drawings for gate and twin lodges at London road entrance for Sir Francis Baring

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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.

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Drawing

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