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
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  - 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 D2/4/5

Purpose

Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

Aspect

[61] Elevation of entrance with frieze of shields alternating with rosettes in lozenges in square sunk panels and alternatively, rosettes in square sunk panels, finials with the Ashburnham crest (out of an earl's coronet, an ash tree), an earl's coronet on a pedestal above the parapet and spur stones, and half-plan of octagonal turret or pier

Scale

½ in to 1 ft

Inscribed

dimensions given

Signed and dated

1813-14

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia washes, shaded, decorative details pricked for transfer on wove paper (585 x 450)

Hand

Dance

Notes

Stroud publishes this drawing as the 'selected design'. It is a nicely finished (perhaps presentation) drawing but the difficulty is that, because of the re-modelling of 1853, visual evidence for the exterior of Dance's work at Ashburnham relies on the simple 'as executed elevation' ([SM D2/1/15] verso and [SM D2/1/7]) or the very simplified elevation shown on a print of 1813 (published in Country Life, CXIII, 1953, p.1337). In both, the porte-cochere frieze is shown as a series of lozenges as in the following drawing.

The 'selected design' shows the porte-cochere with Indian pinnacles, that is, inverted cupped paterae or domed caps with slender, lotus-like leaves and florid finials. The proportions of the entrance are Indian and the frieze (disregarding the shields) akin to a detail found in Indian architecture. For Dance's use of Indian architectural elements see the note on the Guildhall, London.

REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.74b.

Level

Drawing

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