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