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  • image SM D4/4/22

Reference number

SM D4/4/22

Purpose

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

Aspect

[12] Copy of [SM D4/4/9] made 1813 or after

Scale

1/6 in to 1 ft

Signed and dated

  • 1768-c.1813

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia washes within triple ruled pen and sepia wash border on laid paper, two sheets joined, recently lined and filled (645 x 1960)

Hand

office

Watermark

J Whatman 1811 and F&C Wise 1813

Notes

This is a careful though rather mechanical copy that includes the brush technique and shadows of the original; its purpose is not known.

Level

Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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