A visit to Ashdown House (a National Trust property) on Wednesday. The house is tenanted so visiting is only on two afternoons each week during part of the year and access is limited to the central 100 step staircase, which takes you to the viewing platform on the roof of the house. The 1st Earl of Craven was romatically linked to Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, and intended this Dutch-style, chalk stone building as a hunting lodge for when she visited. Work commenced in 1661, but sadly the Queen died in 1662 before it was completed.
I only took a 4" x 6" sketchbook and pen with me and managed to complete about two-thirds of this drawing before seeking shade in the surrounding woodland. It was finalised and painted when I got home.
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| View from the Knot Garden - Pen, watercolour and gouache |
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The small buildings either side originally housed
the stables and the kitchens |
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| Viewed from the side |
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| A view from the roof |
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