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Floating Dock at Rotherhithe. A floating dock is one that can be flooded to receive the hull of a ship and then pumped dry, though in early examples like this ship would have been floated in at high tide and the dock drained on the ebb before being closed
1 July 1815
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Floating Dock at Rotherhithe. Print: see PAD1419, another copy, for details. Fron Cooke's 'Views on the Thames'.
1 July 1815
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The Entrance to the London Docks. Print entitled 'The Entrance to the London Docks'. It is almost certainly from a series publication but which has not yet been determined.
1 July 1815
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The late Sir Willm. Skeffington Bart. &c. &c. Engraved by T. Blood, for the European Magazine from an original Painting by S. Drummond. Technique includes stipple.
1 Jul 1815
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The Nelson on the Stocks, building at Woolwich in the Year 1814. Etching from Cooke's 'Views on the Thames' showing HMS 'Nelson' (1814) near to completion at the Royal Dockyard in Woolwich in 1814. The image shows the bow and sta
1 July 1815
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The Nelson on the Stocks, building at Woolwich in the Year 1814. Hand-coloured. During the Napoleonic War there was a huge expansion in shipbuilding at the Royal Dockyards on the Thames. The 'Nelson' - named after the hero of Trafalgar - was ju
1 July 1815
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View near Hoyle-lake, Cheshire. Print
1 Jul 1815
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