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Reference number
SM D2/3/29
Purpose
Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14
Aspect
[154] Details of cornice and architrave
Scale
full size
Inscribed
Mouldings full size round the opening of folding Doors / leading into the great Eating room - Ashburnham Place / for Mr Russell and (verso, Dance) Ashburnham
Signed: GD
Dated: March 6th 1814
Signed and dated
- 1813-14
Medium and dimensions
Pen, and pink wash, pencil, partly pricked for transfer on laid paper (480 x 685)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
D & C Blauw and fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and WR below
Notes
Placed on the south side of the dining room and opening out into the staircase hall, each leaf of the double door was 2 feet 5 inches wide and hinged at a point 9 inches within the jamb allowing it to lie flat, when open, within the 4 feet deep, back-lined sides of the doorway.
National Monuments Record photographs (1953) of the then 'large dining room' show it with a pair of columns with Bassae Ionic capitals and windows running the length of one side of the room rather than on the short north side. Other reception rooms recorded by the National Monuments Record Office do not tally with Dance's dining room and it may have been swept away when the north front was re-modelled in 1853.
National Monuments Record photographs (1953) of the then 'large dining room' show it with a pair of columns with Bassae Ionic capitals and windows running the length of one side of the room rather than on the short north side. Other reception rooms recorded by the National Monuments Record Office do not tally with Dance's dining room and it may have been swept away when the north front was re-modelled in 1853.
Level
Drawing
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