Francis Dashwood, West Wycombe Park: north front: design with clock towers
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Details
- Country House
- West Wycombe
- Title(s)
- West Wycombe Park: north front: design with clock towers
- Date
- 1739
- Location
- Framed, hanging in the Study, location 080 on Dashwood list, AP 7, Witt 941/22 (5)
- Medium and support
- Pen and ink on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall height: 21.5 cm, Overall width: 45 cm
- Artist
- Francis Dashwood (1708-1781)
- Catalogue Number
- WW1
- Inscription
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- Dated on clocks and scale to 70 feet, pencil annotations of measurements added
Footnotes
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John Ingamells, A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701–1800: Compiled from the Brinsley Ford Archive, New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 1997, p. 278.
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Description
This drawing shows a facade of 19 bays, its central section framed with pediment and pilasters; there is a suggestion of steps to the central doorway and unarticulated window embrasures; the clock-towers were probably added as an afterthought. The only dated drawing in the collection, it predates Dashwood’s second Italian tour; during his first in the early 1730s he had visited Padua and Venice.1