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Reference number

SM D2/10/5

Purpose

Wilderness Park (now Dorton House), near Sevenoaks, Kent, c.1811

Aspect

[4] First floor plan

Scale

1/7 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

rooms labelled, dimensions given and (verso, office) Wyatts Plan

Signed and dated

  • c.1811

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen, sepia, light red and yellow ochre washes, pencil, within double ruled border, pricked for transfer on laid paper (675 x 810)

Hand

Dance

Notes

Above Lady Camden's bedroom suite are the children's nurseries and the conservatory is shown to be double-height.

The idea for a conservatory on a curved plan to link house and wing came from James Wyatt's Doddington Park. Dance had a copy of the ground floor plan on paper watermarked 1811. An inscription on the verso of the drawing catalogued above confirms the source. Doddington was much grander, of course, with a double curve of picture gallery and conservatory linking the house to the church, and the link is on the front of the house rather than the back as in Dance's scheme.

Level

Drawing

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