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Reference number

SM D4/4/5

Purpose

Newgate Gaol, Newgate Street, City of London, 1768-c.1813

Aspect

[6] Plan of the Third (i.e. second) Storey and Elevation of the Back Front of ye Building

Scale

1/13 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

as above

Signed and dated

  • 1768-c.1813

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia washes, shaded within double ruled border on laid paper, recently filled (460 x 680)

Hand

Baldwin

Notes

The windowless back elevation is built of masonry blocks about 5 feet long by 1 foot high (each one drawn in) relieved only by an ashlar parapet with cornice.

REPRODUCED. J Summerson, 'Newgate Gaol: catalogue of drawings in Sir John Soane's Museum', Architectural History, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, II, 1959, p.47.

Level

Drawing

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