A design for building a commodious prison for the reception of debtors & felons, in the room of the present goal [sic] of Newgate [graphic]

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Description

Title
A design for building a commodious prison for the reception of debtors & felons, in the room of the present goal [sic] of Newgate [graphic]
Creator
Dance, George, the Elder, approximately 1694-1768
Published / Created
[1755]
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Description
Title from text above images.
Date of publication from citation in: Imagining the penitentiary : fiction and the architecture of mind in eighteenth-century England / John Bender. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Design consists of three individually-titled images on one plate.
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Window mounted to 37 x 48 cm.
Watermark.
Provenance
Suckling; January 1937.
Extent
1 print : sheet 28.7 x 39 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Topos L847 no. 61+

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Elevations England London
Floor plans England London
Etchings England London 1755
Watermarks (Paper)
Material
etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Geographic)
England
London.
Subject (Topic)
Prisons
Subjects
Prisons > England > London
England > London
England > London > 1755

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
11121041
Object ID (OID)
11001424

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