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 D2/2/16

Purpose

Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

Aspect

[78] Elevation and section of mouldings and lozenge and quatrefoil motif

Scale

full size

Signed and dated

1813-14

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, pink and blue washes, shaded, pencil on wove paper (1000 x 670)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

J Whatman 1811

Notes

Initially Dance had drawn in a quatrefoil set within a square panel rather than within a lozenge within a square panel. This is similar to the detail shown on [SM D2/4/15] verso except that here the rosette here is a simple circular one while there (in what is a design for the pierced parapet over the five centre bays of the principal front and/or balcony front to the first floor) the rosette is square. In subsequent full-size details for the porte-cochere frieze ([SM D2/2/14] and [SM D2/2/26]) Dance dropped the quatrefoil motif within a lozenge for a rosette within a lozenge and (from the evidence of transfer) [SM D2/2/26] seems to be the executed detail.

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Drawing

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