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Reference number
SM D2/1/1
Purpose
Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14
Aspect
[191] Ashburnham arms (gules, a fesse between six mullets, argent) with the crest (out of an earl's coronet or, an ash tree purpure) cut off, with two greyhound supporters (sable, collared and chained or) and motto LE ROY ET L'ESTATE
Scale
3 in to 1 ft?
Inscribed
as above
Signed and dated
- 1813-14
Medium and dimensions
Brown pen and sepia wash, shaded on laid paper stuck on to laid paper (365 x 480 on 585 x 940)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
(backing sheet) D & C Blauw IV and D&CBxX in cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis
Notes
Dance seems to have enjoyed drawing out heraldry and rendered the greyhound supporters of the Ashburnham arms with relish.
Bernasconi's bill for 1816 (the day work dated 31 December 1815 to 20 April 1816) includes '1 Earl Coronet 20In [by] 20In [by] 17In high' costing £8.0.0., '2 Crests consisting of a Ducal Coronet / & Tree on Shield together 18In [by] 15In cost 70s [£3.50] each, '13 Letters each 4In high work'd on a / Ground Viz: LE'RO'Y'ET'ESTAT' at 3s6d each and '1 Comma' costing 1s (ASH 2838).
Farington (8 July 1806) related a story told about the Ashburnham crest: 'It seems the Crest of Lord St.Asaph [later Ashburnham] resembles that of Lord Abercorn which He does not like that any other shoud do. - Passing through Berkeley Square with Sir.G.[ Beaumont] Lord St Asaph's carriage passed by, on which Lord Abercorn said - "St Asaph's Crest grows more like mine every Day, - Yah, - pugh" - spitting out.'
Verso
Incomplete full size details of plinths to turrets?
Faint pencil
Bernasconi's bill for 1816 (the day work dated 31 December 1815 to 20 April 1816) includes '1 Earl Coronet 20In [by] 20In [by] 17In high' costing £8.0.0., '2 Crests consisting of a Ducal Coronet / & Tree on Shield together 18In [by] 15In cost 70s [£3.50] each, '13 Letters each 4In high work'd on a / Ground Viz: LE'RO'Y'ET'ESTAT' at 3s6d each and '1 Comma' costing 1s (ASH 2838).
Farington (8 July 1806) related a story told about the Ashburnham crest: 'It seems the Crest of Lord St.Asaph [later Ashburnham] resembles that of Lord Abercorn which He does not like that any other shoud do. - Passing through Berkeley Square with Sir.G.[ Beaumont] Lord St Asaph's carriage passed by, on which Lord Abercorn said - "St Asaph's Crest grows more like mine every Day, - Yah, - pugh" - spitting out.'
Verso
Incomplete full size details of plinths to turrets?
Faint pencil
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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