A View of the South Front of the North Side of the Marshalsea Prison

A print of 'A view of the south front of the north side of the Marshalsea prison, near Blackman Street, Southwark'. Below is printed a map of Southwark locating the site of the Marshalsea. The view by I. Lewis, Surveyor and Draughtsman, was drawn on, 23 January 1773. This edition of the print was published on 1 January 1812 by Robert Wilkinson, 58 Cornhill. The Marshalsea was primarily used as a debtors prison. Entire families often lived there during a sentence if they had lost their home through the Father's debts. In 1824 Charles Dickens's Father served a term of imprisonment at Marshalsea for debt.