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Newgate Gaol, Newgate Street, City of London, 1768-c.1813
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Reference number
SM D4/4/7
Purpose
Newgate Gaol, Newgate Street, City of London, 1768-c.1813
Aspect
[8] Section through the Chaple &c from North to South, Section through the Debtors Prison from East to West and Section through the Chaple, Keepers House &C from East to West
Scale
1/13 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
as above
Signed and dated
- 1768-c.1813
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia, light red, raw umber and yellow ochre washes, shaded within double-ruled border on laid paper, recently filled (455 x 670)
Hand
Baldwin
Watermark
(footed) P
Notes
King-post roof trusses are used; windows to the three-storey courtyard elevations are semicircular-headed; the section through the Chapel shows tall semicircular-headed windows and a gallery. The revised design ([SM D4/4/3], [SM D4/4/4], [SM D4/4/5], [SM D4/4/6] and [SM D4/4/7]), finely drawn by Robert Baldwin (died 1804) and on the same kind of support (some watermarked with a footed P) associated with the senior Dance and with a number of the younger Dance's drawings made in Rome, forms part of an incomplete set that may have been prepared for engraving.
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.
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.
Level
Drawing
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