Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

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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

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Reference number

SM D2/2/30

Purpose

Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

Aspect

[52] Plan, elevation and profiles of label and label-stop with leaf decoration

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Moulding - round the / Windows in front of Ashburnham / Place, for M^r Bernasconi, dimensions given, some calculations and (verso, Dance) Ashburnham Place / One of the Window Labels / full size Signed: GD Dated: Feby 14 - 1814

Signed and dated

1813-14

Medium and dimensions

Black, brown and red pen, sepia, burnt umber and pink washes, pencil, partly pricked for transfer on laid paper (1000 x 650)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

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

Notes

The leafy part of the half-octagonal label-stop, here and in [SM D2/2/19], though dimensioned is sketchily drawn in and evidently Dance is relying on Bernasconi to realise the plastic detailing. Bernasconi's bill for stucco work, 1813-14 including '154 Octagon D^o [corbels] 12" high 10" Diam^tr / 6" imbossed Ornament 9" high [at] 18/- [each, total £] 138.12,-' (ASH 2809) may refer to these details though, for example, the principal front had 39 windows which, with two stops to each label, adds up to 78 label-stops.

Level

Drawing

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