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Reference number

SM D2/1/22

Purpose

Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

Aspect

[37] Part-elevation of E front showing parapet with cinquefoil within a lozenge decoration and alternative designs for turret pinnacles

Scale

¼ in to 1 ft

Signed and dated

  • 1813-14

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash, pencil on laid paper (370 x 600)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

D & C Blauw and fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and WR below

Notes

Four horizontal paper slits at the neck of the four pinnacles suggest there were once fliers with further alternative designs. Two of the designs shown here have an arched corbel-table frieze supporting an inverted cupped patera with ash tree finial while the other two have another stage and are thus taller and have a finial composed of an ash tree emerging from a ducal coronet (the Ashburnham crest).

REPRODUCED. N. Cooper. 'Indian architecture in England, 1780-1830', Apollo, XCII, 1970,fig.6.

Level

Drawing

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