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 D2/3/14

Purpose

Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

Aspect

[161] Unfinished plan, and elevation/section of (W) chimney-piece wall drawn to a larger scale and corresponding to [SM D2/3/6] and [SM D2/3/1], and rough detail of roller map

Scale

Scale ¾ Inch

Inscribed

as above, some dimensions given and (verso, Dance) Ashburnham Place

Signed and dated

1813-14

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil laid paper (670 x 1005)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

J Whatman 1811

Notes

NOTES on [SM D2/3/6], [SM D2/3/1], [SM D2/3/ 4], SM D2/3/5] and [SM D2/3/14]

Minutely detailed accounts from Russell, Vallance and Evans, carpenters and joiners, for 1815-16 include 'Mahogany Bookcases round Library' costing £627.15.11½ (and are signed 'Measured / James Carter'). Items included: 38 feet 9 inches of 'best Honduras mahogany', 10 feet of 'Fine Mahogany Veneer', 60 feet of 'Mahogany Quirk'd Moldings', 94 feet of 'Mahogany Molded framing / as Doors for Trellis Pannels', 'N^o 12 Circular Mahogany Bases & / Cornices by hand', '112 Mahog^y / Molded Caps and Bases to Pilasters', '162 Mahogany turn'd / Pins', '4480 holes bored / in Mahogany for Pins', 43 feet 6 inches of 'Brass square Trellis halved / Diamond Mesh'. 74 feet 'Run Brass framing for D^o'.

'Measured / James Carter' appears on the accounts (ASH 2828).

Level

Drawing

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