• Title
  Item 2: Scene inside Newgate Prison, 1812 / attributed to Francis Greenway
• Call number
  ML 1003
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, West Wall, no. 116
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  July 1812
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  1005798
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas, timber framed - visible image 42.2 x 68.2, in frame 56.5 x 82.5 cm
  
• Collection history
  Owned by the Greenway family until 1966 when they were sold at Sotheby's London, to Professor Jones.
• Scope and Content
  Depicts a scene inside Newgate Prison, Bristol, where Francis Greenway awaited transportation in 1812
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Work is untitled. Title devised from further research provided by the Library for the publication `Reading the Rooms' in 2023.
• General note
  
  Previously titled, [Scene inside Newgate Prison], 1812 / painted by Francis Greenway
  Further provenance information, restoration & acquisition information held at Pxn 752
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Attributed to Francis Greenway.
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9305118

View Media Files

1.

2.

Show more