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Human-Made Object
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architectural subject
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drawing
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Drawing & Watercolor-Architectural
A Design for a Prison: Aerial Perspective
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Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
B1975.2.302
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110160448
Not on view
Yale Center for British Art
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19 1/4 × 29 inches (48.9 × 73.7 cm)
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cm
48.9
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Sheet
41732
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Studio of Sir Jeffry Wyatville, 1766–1840, British
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Jeffry Wyatville
Sir Jeffry Wyatville
Wyatville, Jeffry, Sir, 1776–1840
Wyatville Jeffry Sir, 1766–1840
Sir Jeffry Wyatville, 1766–1840
Studio of Sir Jeffry Wyatville, 1766–1840
British
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Artist
Studio of
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1840
23
18th century-19th century
Graphite, pen and black ink and watercolor on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper
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graphite
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watercolor
black ink
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17)
972
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/452
300054766
exhibition
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
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BAC
YCBA
British Art Center
Yale Center for British Art
1977
0
2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17
2018-08-27
2018-12-17
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
300435424
Drawing on objects from across the Center’s collections, this exhibition focuses on the experience of prisoners in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the structures that confined them. Featuring iconic representations of life under lock and key by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Joseph Wright of Derby, George Romney, and Francis Wheatley, these images were conceived at a time when prisons were coming under intense scrutiny. — —
In 1773 the penal reformer John Howard began four years surveying the prisons of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and northern Europe before publishing his State of the Prisons in England and Wales (1777), an unprecedented study of the woeful conditions in which convicts were confined. The impact of his demand for sweeping reform is reflected not only in the popularity of the theme of incarceration and emancipation in the work of contemporary artists but also in the architectural drawings and designs included in this exhibition. George Dance the Younger’s iconic Newgate Prison (1769), a rusticated fortress of punishment, is contrasted with a pioneering design for a new jail on a progressive, radial plan by Sir Jeffry Wyatville, itself based on the “scientific” Panopticon of Jeremy Bentham. This in turn is juxtaposed to Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin’s critique of the extension of the radial prison plan to the architecture of the workhouse for the indigent poor and his own proposals for a more humane and less utilitarian structural alternative in his 1841 publication, Contrasts. — —
This exhibition also includes prison ephemera, cell keys, and a collection of mugshots from the Nottingham House of Correction, as well as a photographic record of the West Riding Prison and its officers from the 1880s. Taken together, the representations of both prisons and prisoners in this exhibition aid to illustrate the historical thinking about justice, imprisonment, and punishment. — —
Credits — —
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750–1900 has been organized and curated at the Center by Courtney Skipton Long, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Art Collections.
Yale Center for British Art
41732
300157782
acquisition
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
YCBA
BAC
Yale Center for British Art
British Art Center
1977
0
300203630
Owner
1975
1975
1975
300138913
gift
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architectural subject
300055603
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
https://britishart.yale.edu
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
300055598
Public Domain
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
41732
300133025
Item
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41732
oai:tms.ycba.yale.edu:41732
https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/v2/ycba/obj/41732
https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/41732
IIIF manifest
Yale Center for British Art
500303557
Yale Center for British Art