Life Behind the Fortress Walls

A stone-walled fortress with six rooms in two rows. Upstairs left, a visiting room has children's drawings, family portraits and a man embracing a woman while two children pin up a picture. In the middle, an old man stands over books on a table under a world map and a star chart. At the right, a clerk hands papers to a visitor at a counter. Downstairs left, barred cells with plain beds hold a man packing a trunk while a guard checks a list, under a mural of three crowned kings and hanging keys. In the middle, a warden sits at a desk with an open ledger as a boy hands him a note. At the right, cooks in white hats stir pots and bake bread in a kitchen with a stone hearth. Hearth fire in the kitchen and cold grey stone in the cells set warm against cool, an easy line to follow along the lower floor.