½ in to 1 ft

as above, Plan of the upper part of the Shafts & Capitals of Columns & Pilasters for M^r Joseph Browne Scagliolist and dimensions given Signed: GD Upper Gower Street Dated: Jan^y 5^th 1813 (i.e. 1814)

• 1813-14

Pen and sepia wash on laid paper (675 x 480)

Dance

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

The full-size details relating to this design ([SM D2/2/21] and [SM D2/3/48]) are dated 5 January 1814 and it is likely that Dance mis-dated the drawing catalogued above; the full-size details were also inscribed for Joseph Browne. His accounts from 4 May 1814 to when they were examined by Dance on 21 November 2015 are on paper headed 'Scagliola Manufactory / Gower Street North / Euston Square, New Road / Removed from N^o. 4 Southampton Place' and show that he supplied four granite scagliola columns and four pilasters, eight corresponding skeletons, composition capitals for columns and pilasters that were bronzed, four Portland stone column bases - also bronzed, four pilaster bases ditto and 22 feet of a scagliola granite frieze and soffit at a total cost of £484.2.3½ (ASH 2816). The packing for transport for the fragile scagliola 'shells' including four sacks of sawdust, 36 dozen hay bands and eight sacks of shavings. There was an additional bill for bronzing 465 feet 6 inches of cornice and architrave that probably refers to the staircase hall mouldings including the cornice of the elided entablatures of the porticos (cf. [SM D2/5/15].

Drawing

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