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Description: | Hand-coloured. Plate 1 from Dodd's 'Seaport' set, see below, and engraved from his own oil of 1792 (BHC3867) which suggests that all the originals were also oils.
Dodd did two series of seaport and dockyard prints, easily confused in image terms. The early and slightly smaller unnumbered Royal Dockyard set was published by Boydell, comprising Woolwich, 1789 ( PAH9725); Deptford 1789 (PAH9746); Portsmouth, 1790 (PAH9742); Plymouth, 1790 (PAH9767) and Chatham, 1798 (PAH9714). The larger numbered ones were published by Freeman on 4 June 1793, including as no.1 Greenwich (PAI7098), no. 2 Limehouse (PAI7128), no. 3 [ identity TBC] and no. 4 Dover (PAI7087).
Also TBC is whether PAH9724, the Dodd/Boydell view of Blackwall (pub 25 March 1789) with the launch of the 'Bombay Castle' Indiaman, subsequently presented to the Navy, is effectively part of the 'Dockyard' set - or possibly suggested it, since it antedates the first of them (Woolwich, October 1789).
PvdM 10/05
Box Title: Seaports C18. Greenwich, Portsmouth, etc. | Publisher: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/page/7d7ded6fb50d6031e2884961a200be58.html | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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