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Reference number

SM D2/4/1

Purpose

Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

Aspect

[192] Ashburnham crest and four preliminary designs for details: (i) elevation of parapet with Venetian crenellations related to Design F (ii) variant elevations of three cappings to turrets, two bell-shaped (Indian) and one octagonal, with vase and roses terminations

Scale

3 in to 1ft? and to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 1813-14

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen and sepia wash, shaded; (details) pen and sepia wash, pencil on four pieces of laid paper stuck on to laid paper (245 x 205 to 65 x 54 on 545 x 750)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

(backing sheet) Edmeads & Pine and fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and GR below

Notes

The rays of gold supporting the pearls of an earl's coronet are quite similar in form to Venetian crenellation, a decorative motif found in Dance's work.

Verso
Incomplete plan of foundations? of an unidentified building
Inscribed: dimensions given
Pen, pencil

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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