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

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Reference number

SM D4/4/23

Purpose

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

Aspect

[25] W elevation

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

To S^r. Robert Ladbroke Kn^r. Alderman and Father of the City of London and the rest of the Gentlemen of the Committee appointed to Rebuild / the Gaol of Newgate this elevation of the West Front is Humbly Inscrib'd by their most Oblig'd Humble Servant / George Dance and with some dimensions added Signed. R. Baldwin sculp.

Signed and dated

1768-c.1863

Medium and dimensions

Engraving on wove paper (trimmed 400 x 740)

Hand

Baldwin

Notes

The engraving is by Robert Baldwin, probably made from the contract elevation of 1769 ([SM D4/4/9]) which he drew. Here he has corrected the shadow line (drawn at about 1.30 pm) so that the western front now properly receives the sun from the south instead of the north. Dance must have commissioned this engraving before a reduced and less accurate one was published in the Gentleman's Magazine in August 1770.

There is a further copy of the engraving inscribed in pencil by G. Bailey (Soane Museum curator 1837-60) G. Dance with a collection of miscellaneous prints belonging to Soane ([SM 59/2/25]).

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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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