Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon - elevation
The elevation view of Jeremy Bentham's scheme for a panopticon workhouse to hold up to 2000 inmates. The design, published in Bentham's 1812 work Pauper Management Improved, was originally devised for housing prisoners. It comprised a ring doughnut shaped building with a central control post
Picture No
10512860
Media ID
47553959
Size
6209px x 6680px
(4.5MB)
Credit
Mary Evans/Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Illustration from Pauper Management Improved'
Date
1812
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1812 Benthams Comprised Devised Doughnut Elevation Improved Inmates Management Panopticon Pauper Scheme
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