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Reference number
SM D2/6/14
Purpose
Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14
Aspect
[189] Section of the Mouldings A round / the front of great / Arch of the Bridge / Full size and Mouldings B Full size / Base of the Octagon Turrets
Scale
full size
Inscribed
as above, labelled Face of Ashler above the Arch and Sofite of Arch, Line of high water and (verso, Dance) Bridge (twice)
Signed and dated
- 1813-14
Medium and dimensions
Pen and sepia wash, pencil, partly pricked for transfer on wove paper (905 x 675)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
Edmeads & Co 1804
Notes
Thomas Nuttall's accounts for stone-quarrying and mason's work, 1813-17, include a bill, dated 9 May 1813 to 14 May 1814, for the bridge which includes foundations and piledriving. An undated bill for 'Bridge in Park' has charges 'Labor on materials prepared for Terraces [and added later] used at the Bridge' (ASH 2805).
Dance's stone bridge replaced an earlier one of wood (Country Life, XXIX, 1916, p.146). Like its predecessor it carries the drive over the lake designed by Capability Brown and, with elements of the garden terraces, is the only part of Dance's work at Ashburnham that has survived.
Dance's stone bridge replaced an earlier one of wood (Country Life, XXIX, 1916, p.146). Like its predecessor it carries the drive over the lake designed by Capability Brown and, with elements of the garden terraces, is the only part of Dance's work at Ashburnham that has survived.
Level
Drawing
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