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
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Reference number

SM D4/3/17, SM D4/3/18

Purpose

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

Aspect

[16 and 17] Details of typical windows, doors and chimney-pieces

Scale

Inch scale and 3 Inch scale

Inscribed

as above, No 3, Fig.1 to Fig.11, No4, Fig.1 to Fig.8, labelled and some dimensions given Signed: Dan^l Pinder / Thomas Silk / John Mackenzie / W Bosworth Mason [crossed out] / John Dowley / John Banner / Tho^s Barlow / Ralph Monk Dated: Exhibited to us on the 22d of May 1783

Signed and dated

1768-c.1813

Medium and dimensions

Pen, light red, sepia and raw umber washes, hatching within single-ruled border, pricked for transfer on laid paper (480 x 630, 480 x 635)

Hand

office

Watermark

D&DBlauw IV and D&CBxX in cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis

Notes

The two sheets of details are laid out in a prophetically Arts and Crafts manner, that is, economical, clear and with an eye to the beauty of a well-composed working drawing.

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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