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 D2/2/21

Purpose

Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

Aspect

[125] Plan and profiles of column, and profile of pilaster base

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Capital of Columns, Ashburnham Place, Sussex, Plan of one Quarter of the Capital of Columns, Basemouldings of Columns and Pilasters, All these mouldings are drawn full size, For M^r Joseph Browne, Scagliolist and (verso, Dance) Ashburnham / Capital of Columns / in principal Staircase / Full size and (Browne?) Columns & Pilasters of the R^t Hon^ble Earl Ashburnham Signed: GD Upper Gower Street Dated: 5^th Jan^y 1814

Signed and dated

1813-14

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, partly pricked for transfer on laid paper (570 x 865)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

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

Notes

Dance has kept the Doric capital to its essentials so that above the slight concave sweep of the shaft are two grooves between fillets and above, the echinus and abacus. See [SM D2/5/14] for the related working drawing and note and see also a full-size detail for the capital of the Doric portico at Stratton Park, [SM D1/3/35].

Level

Drawing

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