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
- 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

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Reference number

SM D2/3/2

Purpose

Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

Aspect

[156] Elevation/section of (W) chimney-piece wall with two concealed doors and six bookcases, each either 18 in or 2 ft wide and consisting of five shelves over cupboards with roller maps at the top

Scale

½ in to 1 ft approximately

Inscribed

roller maps labelled Europe, Asia, Gt Britain and Ireland, France, Germany, Africa, America, East India, Spain and Italy

Signed and dated

1813-14

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, green earth, yellow ochre, pink, burnt umber, blue and mauve washes and various tints for books, shaded on laid paper (245 x 480)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

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

Notes

Dance has adapted Mr Legge's bookcases for the chimney-piece wall of the library at Ashburnham without much alteration, changing only the spacing and fitting in jib doors with false fronts. The wall above the bookcase is washed in dark grey-green.

Level

Drawing

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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.

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