West Wycombe Park: north front: design with central hexastyle Doric portico and Ionic porticoes at the extremities
Francis Dashwood, c.1740–50

Francis Dashwood, West Wycombe Park: north front: design with central hexastyle Doric portico and Ionic porticoes at the extremities
Photo courtesy of Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez (All rights reserved)
Details
- Country House
- West Wycombe
- Title(s)
- West Wycombe Park: north front: design with central hexastyle Doric portico and Ionic porticoes at the extremities
- Date
- c.1740–50
- Location
- Framed, hanging in the Study, location 080 on Dashwood list, AP 11, Witt 941/21 (66)
- Medium and support
- Pen and ink on paper with pencil additions
- Dimensions
- Overall height: 17 cm, Overall width: 36 cm
- Artist
- Francis Dashwood (1708-1781)
- Catalogue Number
- WW3
- Inscription
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- Inscription: ‘Another Elevation to the North’; scale without numbering
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Description
The pencil additions on this unfinished drawing show suggestions of rustication on basement and balustrades to ground-floor windows, otherwise all window and door openings are unarticulated. The two-bay east and west extremities are set back from the principal body of the facade.