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

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
- Prison, courts and a lunatic hospital (5)
  - Newgate Gaol, Newgate Street, City of London, 1768-c.1813 (25)

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Reference number

SM D4/4/6

Purpose

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

Aspect

[7] Plan of the Roofing, North Elevation / next Newgate Street and South Elevation / next Sessions House

Scale

1/13 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

as above and labelled Court three times

Signed and dated

1768-c.1813

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, raw umber and blue washes, shaded within double ruled border on laid paper, recently filled (460 x 690)

Hand

Baldwin

Watermark

(footed) P

Notes

Except for the Keeper's House, all roofs are hipped; the north and south elevations are identical, having two blind aedicules each within an arched recess.

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.48.

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Drawing

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