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 D2/3/7

Purpose

Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

Aspect

[162] Plan and laid out wall elevations

Scale

½ in to 1 ft

Inscribed

The whole superficies for Books contains 348^Feet..3ⁱⁿ and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1813-14

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pink, yellow ochre and blue washes on wove paper (665 x 920)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

J Whatman 1811

Notes

The room shown here measures 35 feet 8 inches by 19 feet 9 inches while the library (shown in [SM D2/3/6] and [SM D2/3/1]) is 33 by 22 feet. There are other differences relating to the position and size of doors and windows and this scheme may have been for the room on the northwest side that became the billiard room.

Photocopies of National Monument Record photographs (1953) illustrate the 'Great Library' and the 'Small Library'. The latter was perhaps the library shown on [SM D2/3/6], [SM D2/3/1], [SM D2/3/ 4], SM D2/3/5] and [SM D2/3/14] though the bookcases are different. The 4th Earl Ashburnham, who succeeded in 1830, was a famous collector of early manuscripts and rare books (as well as works of art and furniture) and is likely to have changed the library arrangements of Dance's time.

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Drawing

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