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 D2/3/32

Purpose

Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

Aspect

[137] Half-plan of ceiling, plans and profiles of mouldings

Scale

½ in to 1 ft and full size

Inscribed

Plan of Mouldings in Ceiling of Lantern, Section of Flower and Mouldings in the Ceiling of the Lantern at Ashburnham Place full size, Section of Mouldings full size at A on Plan, Mouldings full size at B on Plan and Cornice at the Bottom of the Cove / full size

Signed and dated

1813-14

Medium and dimensions

Red and black pen, blue wash, pencil, shading, partly pricked for transfer on wove paper (675 x 1010)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

J Whatman 1811

Notes

Mouldings include egg and dart, bead, five-petalled rosette and a series of balls, nearly two inches in diameter, arranged in a cavetto with a semicircular section that Soane was to use, most memorably because (recently) silvered, in the principal bedroom at Wotton House (1821-2). Amendments made to [SM D2/3/42] and [SM D2/3/25] are included here.

Level

Drawing

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

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