Frederick Christian Lewis
British, b.1779, d.1836
Artist Unknown
James Lewis
b.1751, d.1820 (After)
A View Of The South Front Of The North Side Of The Marshalsea Prison, Near Blackman Street, Southwark
- Engraving
- Sir Joseph Kinsey bequest
- 285 x 365mm
- 78/109
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Location: Monica Richards Gallery
Tags: aerial views, buildings (structures), maps (documents), monochrome, prisons (buildings), smoke (material), text (layout feature)
Marshalsea was a notorious debtor’s prison in Southwark, London from 1373 to 1842. Its inmates included Charles Dickens’s father John, who was jailed in 1824 over a debt to his local baker, which his twelve-year-old son was forced to work off in a shoe-blacking factory.
(Out of Time, 23 September 2023 – 28 April 2024)
Exhibition History
![Andreas Cellarius Hypothesis Ptolemaica Sive Communis Planetarum Motus Per Eccentricos Et Epicyclos Demonstrans [The Ptolemaic Hypothesis or Common Representation Demonstrating the Planetary Motions through Eccentrics and Epicycles] 1661. Hand-coloured engraving. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, William A. Sutton bequest, 2000](/media/cache/05/97/05970cdff0f6b3264062d69bf2aa90f5.jpg)
