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1.
A design for building a commodious prison for the reception of debtors & felons, in the room of the

Creator:
Dance, George, the Elder, approximately 1694-1768
Published / Created:
[1755]
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 61+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
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., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Prisons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A design for building a commodious prison for the reception of debtors & felons, in the room of the present goal [sic] of Newgate [graphic]

2.
Execution at Horsemonger-lane Jail, Monday, April 11, 1836. Wm. Harley for the Chipstead burglary

Published / Created:
[1836?]
Call Number:
File 523 Ex96 836++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title. and Mounted to: 46 x 34 cm. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by Taylor, 14 Waterloo-Road, near the Victoria Theatre, Lambeth
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and Chipstead.
Subject (Name):
Harley, William, -1836.
Subject (Topic):
Executions and executioners, Burglary, Prisons, and Hangings (Executions)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Execution at Horsemonger-lane Jail, Monday, April 11, 1836. Wm. Harley for the Chipstead burglary

3.
Execution at Horsemonger-lane Jail, Monday, April 11, 1836. Wm. Harley for the Chipstead burglary

Published / Created:
[1836?]
Call Number:
File 523 Ex96 836++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title. and Mounted to: 46 x 34 cm. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by Taylor, 14 Waterloo-Road, near the Victoria Theatre, Lambeth
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and Chipstead.
Subject (Name):
Harley, William, -1836.
Subject (Topic):
Executions and executioners, Burglary, Prisons, and Hangings (Executions)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Execution at Horsemonger-lane Jail, Monday, April 11, 1836. Wm. Harley for the Chipstead burglary

4.
Fleet Prison [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 September 1808]
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 26+
Collection Title:
V. 2 Microcosm of London.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of the inner court of the prison, with the prisoners playing rackets on the left, others standing watching, a number of men smoking pipes, others lounging across benches."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 36., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 44., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., and Mounted to 26 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Septr. 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fleet Prison (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Prisons and Courtyards
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Fleet Prison [graphic]

5.
Fleet Prison [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 September 1808]
Call Number:
Quarto 646 808 M58 v.2
Collection Title:
V. 2 Microcosm of London.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of the inner court of the prison, with the prisoners playing rackets on the left, others standing watching, a number of men smoking pipes, others lounging across benches."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 36., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 44., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., and 1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.1 x 27.9 cm, on sheet 26.5 x 33.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Septr. 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fleet Prison (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Prisons and Courtyards
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Fleet Prison [graphic]

6.
Jack Shepherd drawn from [the] life An exact representation of [the] holes Shepherd made in [the

Published / Created:
[1724?]
Call Number:
724.00.00.02++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of the interior of the cell on the left: Portrait of John ('Jack') Sheppard, whole length, seated on a chair in prison cell at Newgate, with hands and feet in chains, shackled to the floor, leaning to left, looking up at sunlight streaming through the window at right; wearing hat, jacket, waistcoat, breeches, stockings and buckled shoes, cloak or blanket over chair back and on floor; broken chimney where he escaped at top left. On the right, eleven images showing details of John ('Jack') Sheppard's escape from prison on 15 October 1724, including the locks, bolts and doors he broke open, the hole he made in the chimney, and climbing over the outer walls of Newgate prison
Alternative Title:
Jack Sheppard drawn from the life
Description:
Titles from item., Possibly intended for sale as two separate prints, with publication line repeated under second title., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Titled 'Portrait of Jack Shepherd, with a representation of the manner in which he made his escape from Newgate, Oct. 15th, 1724: published by Bowles' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc, London, 1829., and Mounted to: 38 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for and sold by T. Bowles, print seller next the Chapter House in St. Pauls Ch. Yard & J. Bowles, print seller over against Stocks Market
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, London., England., and City of London (England)
Subject (Name):
Sheppard, Jack, 1702-1724, and Newgate (Prison : London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Prisons, Prison escapes, Cells (Rooms & spaces), Prisoners, and Criminals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Jack Shepherd drawn from [the] life An exact representation of [the] holes Shepherd made in [the] chimney and of [the] locks bolts & doors he broke open in makeing his wonderfull escape out of Newgate, Oct. [the] 15th, 1724, between 4 in [the] afternoon & 1 in [the] morng. [graphic]

7.
Jack Sheppard [graphic]

Creator:
Maddocks, W., printmaker
Published / Created:
[1819?]
Call Number:
819.00.00.13
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of John ('Jack') Sheppard, three-quarter length in prison cell, seated to left with hands in chains and head turned to right; wearing plain coat and necktie, his hair cut short; after Thornhill. Sheppard was a notorious thief who was famous for his daring escapes from multiple prisons in London
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 31 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Sheppard, Jack, 1702-1724.
Subject (Topic):
Criminals, Prisoners, and Prisons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Jack Sheppard [graphic]

8.
Kings Bench Prison [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 December 1808]
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 44+
Collection Title:
V. 2 Microcosm of London.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View looking across the prison yard, in St George's Fields; men and women sitting and strolling across right side of yard, the left side only partly in view showing men playing with rackets; wells surrounded by iron railings in centre of yard separating two sides, a long table in left foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 46., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 161.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Decr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
King's Bench Prison (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Prisons and Courtyards
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Kings Bench Prison [graphic]

9.
Kings Bench Prison [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 December 1808]
Call Number:
Quarto 646 808 M58 v.2
Collection Title:
V. 2 Microcosm of London.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View looking across the prison yard, in St George's Fields; men and women sitting and strolling across right side of yard, the left side only partly in view showing men playing with rackets; wells surrounded by iron railings in centre of yard separating two sides, a long table in left foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 46., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 161., and 1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.8 x 28.4 cm, on sheet 26.8 x 34.1 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Decr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
King's Bench Prison (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Prisons and Courtyards
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Kings Bench Prison [graphic]

10.
Newgate [graphic].

Creator:
Malton, Thomas, 1748-1804, printmaker
Published / Created:
[30 November 1799]
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 60+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of the front of Newgate, as it appeared after being rebuilt for the second time by George Dance in 1780; elegantly dressed figures and carriages waiting outside prison"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802]., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 30, 1799, by T. Malton
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Prisons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Newgate [graphic].