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Reference number
SM 73/3/6
Purpose
[6] Presentation drawing
Aspect
Plan of the first floor
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
as above (in sans serif capitals), rooms labelled: staircase, gaolers / chamber, debtor, staircase, debtor, womens / day room, privy, cell, cell, cell, passage to womens cells, staircase, fines, fines, fines, passage, staircase, fines, court, staircase, condemn'd / cell, men-felons / day room, cell, cell, cell, cell, passage to mens cells, cell, cell, cell, cell, cell, cell, passage to men felons cells, men felons / day room, condemn'd cell
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia and black washes, pricked for transfer on laid paper (750 x 535)
Hand
Thomas Chawner (1774-1851, pupil 1788-94)
Watermark
J Whatman
Notes
The plan shows that the entrance is to the south in a new building with accommodation for the debtors and women prisoners and including a chapel, committee room and reception area. The remodelled keep is laid out internally on a U-plan with an airing court and arcade on the ground floor and cells on the upper floors.
Soane's office 'Journal No1' has an entry for the 26 May 1789: 'sent Mr Fellowes a plan for alterations'. Between 1785 and 1790 Soane built Shotesham Hall in Norfolk (q.v.) for Robert Fellowes, a magistrate and local politician. See introduction to this catalogue for a note of Soane's drawings for Norwich Castle Gaol in Norwich Castle Museum, 1789-91, two of them inscribed 'Robert Fellowes'.
The office 'Journal' also records that Soane's drawings were 'approved & ordered into execution on 17 June 1789'.
Not all of of Soane's presentation drawings have survived; the office Journal No 1 has an entry for 6 June 1789 'Took with me / No 5 fair Drawings of a Design / for the improvements / Three Plans / One elevation of front / one doof flank / One Section on 5 Sheets of double Eleph[ant]'. Double elephant size paper is generally understood as 40½ inches x 26 and 7/8 inches (1003 x 685 mm) which does not correspond with the dimensions given above.
Soane's office 'Journal No1' has an entry for the 26 May 1789: 'sent Mr Fellowes a plan for alterations'. Between 1785 and 1790 Soane built Shotesham Hall in Norfolk (q.v.) for Robert Fellowes, a magistrate and local politician. See introduction to this catalogue for a note of Soane's drawings for Norwich Castle Gaol in Norwich Castle Museum, 1789-91, two of them inscribed 'Robert Fellowes'.
The office 'Journal' also records that Soane's drawings were 'approved & ordered into execution on 17 June 1789'.
Not all of of Soane's presentation drawings have survived; the office Journal No 1 has an entry for 6 June 1789 'Took with me / No 5 fair Drawings of a Design / for the improvements / Three Plans / One elevation of front / one doof flank / One Section on 5 Sheets of double Eleph[ant]'. Double elephant size paper is generally understood as 40½ inches x 26 and 7/8 inches (1003 x 685 mm) which does not correspond with the dimensions given above.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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