Lot 713: James Lawson Stewart (1829-1911)

James Lawson Stewart (1829-1911)
Part of the Marshelsea Prison, Bow Street (illustrated); Angel Place, Bow with Marshelsea Prison on the right; Stoney Street, Southwark; Fore Street, Lambeth (2); Angel Place, Borough; and New Princes Street, Lambeth
all signed with monogram (lower right) and inscribed with titles (on the reverse)
pencil and watercolour heightened with white, unframed
7 x 10 in. (17.7 x 25.4 cm.) (7)

The Marshelsea Prison, in Borough, served as a debtor's prison from 1329 until it closed in 1842. It is perhaps most remembered now for its connections with Charles Dickens whose father was imprisoned there in 1824, and who made it the setting for much of his novel Little Dorrit.