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Reference number
SM D2/8/21
Purpose
Design for an unidentified villa in a Gothic style
Aspect
[1] Front elevation of a three-bay, two-storey villa with a three-storey, 12-sided central tower
Scale
¼ in to 1 ft
Inscribed
(pencil) Elevation of the North Front and some dimensions given
Medium and dimensions
Pen, warm sepia and blue washes, shaded, pencil within single ruled pencil border on laid paper, affixed to [SM D2/8/20] (545 x 810)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
D & C Blauw IV and D&CBxX in cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis
Notes
Approximately 87 feet wide, the front is composed of a five-sided canted bay in the centre (fronted by a porte-cochere) flanked by arched tripartite windows. On the ground floor these are lancets, on the first floor, drop-arched; the glazed front door has reticulated tracery while the battlemented tower has lancet windows with plate tracery. Polygonal turrets flank the end bays and more slender ones mark each corner of the polygonal tower.
Carefully drawn, washed and shaded, the elevation must have been intended for presentation. It is not known who was the client though it may have been the same unidentified person for whom Dance made another, sketchier, design for a three-storey Gothic villa. One of the elevations for that scheme ([SM D2/8/20]) is affixed to the drawing catalogued here (though one has a north front and the other a southeast principal elevation). Or could this be an alternative elevation for an unidentified six-part villa in a Classical style where the front is 78 feet and not 87 feet wide?
Carefully drawn, washed and shaded, the elevation must have been intended for presentation. It is not known who was the client though it may have been the same unidentified person for whom Dance made another, sketchier, design for a three-storey Gothic villa. One of the elevations for that scheme ([SM D2/8/20]) is affixed to the drawing catalogued here (though one has a north front and the other a southeast principal elevation). Or could this be an alternative elevation for an unidentified six-part villa in a Classical style where the front is 78 feet and not 87 feet wide?
Level
Drawing
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