File:The Ancient South Gate and the Prison, Exeter.jpg

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The Ancient South Gate and the Prison, Exeter   (  )
Artist
Thomas Burnett Worth
Title
The Ancient South Gate and the Prison, Exeter
Description

The hand written caption is hard to read as the paper is torn, ‘ANCIENT SOUTH GATE EXETER/ [work missing] CITY PRISON DEMOLISHED 1819/ [word missing] SHOE ‘Pray remember the poor debtors’.


The work depicts the South Gate in Exeter and the city prison which was demolished in 1819. However, this is an entirely fictional and somewhat Romantic view. The artist has chosen to use the priest’s house of Holy Trinity rather than the South Gate as the setting for the prison. A man under the archway, dressed in green coat and top hat, places something into a shoe which is suspended on string by two men from a window above. It alludes to the story about a room in the Keeper’s house which came to be known as ‘the shoe’, according to the prison reformer James Neild who visited South Gate prison in 1806.

Purchased with assistance from the Friends of RAMM; with support gifted through a will, 2017.
Date circa 1880
date QS:P571,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium watercolor on paper
medium QS:P186,Q22915256;P186,Q11472,P518,Q861259
institution QS:P195,Q7373646
Accession number
50/2017
Place of creation Exeter
Credit line Royal Albert Memorial Museum
Inscriptions Hand written ANCIENT SOUTH GATE EXETER/ (missing word paper torn) CITY PRISON DEMOLISHED 1819/ (torn missing wording) HOE ‘Pray remember the (indistinct word) Destroy’; Hand written Drawn by T.B. Worth 12 (wording indistinct and torn)
Source/Photographer Royal Albert Memorial Museum
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