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Newgate Gaol, Newgate Street, City of London, 1768-c.1813
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Reference number
SM D4/4/9
Purpose
Newgate Gaol, Newgate Street, City of London, 1768-c.1813
Aspect
[10] Elevation of principal (W) front
Scale
1/6 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
Exhibited to me June 9 1769 / Geo: Wyatt / Exhibited to me June 16 1769 / John Devall Junr / Exhibited to us June 16th 1769 / JNo Read / Joshua Hobson
Dated: June 9 1769 and June 16 1769 (as above)
Signed and dated
- 1768-c.1813
Medium and dimensions
Pen and sepia washes, shaded, within double ruled and wash border on laid paper, two sheets joined, worn, recently lined and filled (555 x 1585)
Hand
Baldwin
Notes
Robert Baldwin's rendering emphasises the grimly rusticated character of the facade. A drawing for the west elevation by Baldwin that correctly reverses the shading (see note to [SM D4/4/23]) is in the Corporation of London Records Office (Surveyor's Justice Plans, vol.1, No.9).
Dance has revised the simple slab-like forms of his earlier design ([SM D4/4/1]) so that the Keeper's House is now pedimented and the flanking entrance lodges have an extra hipped storey while the formerly unarticulated wings are now slightly advanced at the corners and modelled by giant blind aedicules within semicircular-headed blind recesses. The claustrophobic horror of these massive, windowless walls is matched by the twin entrances that have pierced doors above which hang shackles below meshed lunette windows; all serving to emphasise the caged terror of imprisonment.
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.46 (in part); Stroud fig.29b (part of the west elevation); H.D. Kalman, 'Newgate Prison', Architectural History, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, XII, 1969, fig.29c.
Dance has revised the simple slab-like forms of his earlier design ([SM D4/4/1]) so that the Keeper's House is now pedimented and the flanking entrance lodges have an extra hipped storey while the formerly unarticulated wings are now slightly advanced at the corners and modelled by giant blind aedicules within semicircular-headed blind recesses. The claustrophobic horror of these massive, windowless walls is matched by the twin entrances that have pierced doors above which hang shackles below meshed lunette windows; all serving to emphasise the caged terror of imprisonment.
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.46 (in part); Stroud fig.29b (part of the west elevation); H.D. Kalman, 'Newgate Prison', Architectural History, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, XII, 1969, fig.29c.
Level
Drawing
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