Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

Browse

Books

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

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM D2/5/34

Purpose

Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

Aspect

[105] Unfinished ceiling plan, section of part of first floor, second floor, cove and base of lantern and rough upward perspective of part of ceiling and lantern

Scale

½ in to 1 ft

Inscribed

labelled including opening of Lanthorn, Diam^r 17^Ft ..8ⁱⁿ finish, Cove, Beams under / sky light and dimensions given

Signed and dated

1813-14

Medium and dimensions

Pen, blue wash and pencil on wove paper (1000 x 665)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

Edmeads & Co 1804

Notes

The coved ceiling is rectangular with a circular lantern, 17 feet 8 inches in diameter, and spandrels, and narrow oblong compartments at north and south ends.

Verso
Plan of porte-cochere, plan and elevation of porte-cochere pier and turret
Scale: ¼ in to 1 ft and 1½ in to 1 ft
Inscribed: dimensions given
Pen, sepia, blue and Indian red wash, pencil.
The full-size detail is related to [SM D2/2/24]. It is likely that this drawing sheet with the unfinished ceiling plan was re-used for the large size details of the porte-cochere.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).