Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

Browse

Books

George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
- Country Houses (31)
  - Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14 (193). Survey drawings, alternative designs, designs and working drawings for alterations and additions, including the modelling of the principal front, a new staircase and for a garden bridge, for 3rd Earl Ashburnham

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM D2/1/14

Purpose

Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

Aspect

[18] Elevation of E (principal) front

Scale

¼ in to 1 ft

Inscribed

some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1813-14

Medium and dimensions

Black and blue pen, sepia and blue washes, pencil, within single ruled border (top and bottom) on wove paper, two sheets joined (505 x 1170)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

J Whatman

Notes

Alternative designs for the raised parapet are offered here with either the festoons of [SM D2/1/16] or pierced quatrefoils within lozenges. Slight alternative variants to the turret terminations of [SM D2/1/16] and [SM D2/1/17] are also shown. Labels and balconies are fully drawn in. The Indian qualities of Dance's design for the front of Ashburnham emerge most clearly for the first time in this drawing: pierced parapet (jali), chujja-like labels, corbel-table frieze (Indian machicolation) and fancifully decorated turrets (minarets). For a note on Dance's use of Indian architectural elements see the note on the Guildhall, London.

REPRODUCED. R. Head, The Indian Style, 1986, fig.18.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).