Newgate Prison

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Newgate Prison, London, drawing by George Dance the Younger; in Sir John Soane's Museum, London.

Newgate Prison

historical prison, London, United Kingdom

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Dance’s Newgate Prison, London (1769; demolished 1902), was among the most original English buildings of the century, a grim rusticated complex combining the romantic drama of Piranesi with the discipline of Palladio and the Mannerist details of Giulio Romano in an imaginative paradigm of Neoclassicism. Holland…
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Dance’s Newgate Prison, London (1769; demolished 1902), was among the most original English buildings of the century, a grim rusticated complex combining the romantic drama of Piranesi with the discipline of Palladio and the Mannerist details of Giulio Romano in an imaginative paradigm of Neoclassicism. Holland…
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George Dance, the Younger
…he designed his best-known structure, Newgate Prison (1770–78; demolished 1902), which was notable for the strength and severity of its rusticated (rough-hewn) masonry.
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…he designed his best-known structure, Newgate Prison (1770–78; demolished 1902), which was notable for the strength and severity of its rusticated (rough-hewn) masonry.
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