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Reference number
SM D2/1/4
Purpose
Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14
Aspect
[13] (Design D) Elevation of existing E (principal) front with pediment over the centre and six slender pilasters or turrets faintly pencilled in on the five-bay centre and a porte-cochere with semicircular-arched entrance flanked by polygonal buttresses
Scale
1/8 in to 1 ft
Signed and dated
- 1813-14
Medium and dimensions
Pen, raw umber, sepia, green earth, blue and burnt umber washes, shaded, pencil within single ruled border on wove paper (235 x 705)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
J Whatman
Notes
The porte-cochere buttresses are finished by pinnacles with gablets below an inverted cupped patera supporting a coronet out of which emerges an ash tree. The lintel above the semicircular-arched opening with concentric mouldings supports the Ashburnham arms and has Venetian (or Indian) crenellation above an arched corbel-table frieze (or machicolation) below it. The alternative designs as well as the executed design for the porte-cochere show its front with Indian proportions, that, with a tight space between the head of the arch and the parapet and tightly flanking turrets. Dir Banmali Tandan (conversation, 17 April 2000) considers this design with stepped buttresses the most Indian of the several varying porte-cochere designs. Pencil indications show Dance's proposals for a new plinth, string courses and cornice for the front elevation.
Verso
Rough perspective of front with porte-cochere, six slender buttresses in the centre and twin larger buttresses framing the end pavilions
Pencil
Relates to [SM D2/1/10]
Verso
Rough perspective of front with porte-cochere, six slender buttresses in the centre and twin larger buttresses framing the end pavilions
Pencil
Relates to [SM D2/1/10]
Level
Drawing
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