Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  Newgate Gaol, Newgate Street, City of London, 1768-c.1813
  • image SM D4/4/21

Reference number

SM D4/4/21

Purpose

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

Aspect

[23] Perspective from NW

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 1768-c.1813

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia washes, shaded, within single ruled border on wove paper, recently lined and filled (665 x 1005)

Hand

office

Watermark

J Whatman 1811

Notes

The building is shown as finally completed with a central attic storey replacing the earlier pediment and thus reverting to something like the blocky simplicity of Dance's earlier design ([SM D4/4/1]). However, some details of the lower part are not as finally executed, for example, the Keeper's House is shown with the square-headed entrance of the 1769 contract drawing ([SM D4/4/9]) instead of the semicircular-headed door of the final scheme (cf. [SM D4/4/17]).

Level

Drawing

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk