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Reference number

SM D3/7/15

Purpose

Laxton Hall, Northamptonshire, c.1812

Aspect

[1] Elevations/sections

Scale

½ in to 1 ft

Signed and dated

  • c.1812

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, crimson, blue and burnt umber washes, pencil, shaded on laid paper (575 x 890)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

D & C Blauw IV and D&CBxX in cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis

Notes

The preliminary design shows a pyramidally roofed lantern above, at first floor level, a screen of four unfluted Ionic columns with antae supporting a segmental pediment. At ground level there is a low, wide semicircular arch, strongly moulded, that springs from a strongly articulated dado/plinth with two sculptured crouching lions, the wall has horizontally channelled rustication on its lower half. The drawing shows two semicircular-headed doors and a niche on the side wall that in execution were changed to a single door with a flat head; the couchant lions either side of the arch were omitted and Repton's circular skylight of 15 feet diameter was transformed by Dance into the present elegant (still circular) lantern supported on segmental arches, the pendentives enriched with wreaths.

Level

Drawing

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