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Description: | Hand-coloured. Plate 2 from Dodd's 'Seaport' set, see below. Inscribed: 'Painted by Robert Dodd. Plate 2d. of a Collection of the Seaports & of the River Thames./To the King's most excellent Majesty This View of the River & Shipping at Limehouse/By His most gracious Permission-Is with all Humility Inscribed By His Majesty's Dutiful and Loyal Subjects./Dodd Woodfall & Freeman/Published under the Patronage of the King June 4th. 1793 by Freeman & Co. Printsellers to his Majesty No.95 Strand.' Includes detail of a cargo vessel, merchantman 'Ann Gordon' ca. 1793. (NMM neg. no. 3481; note that acquisition number does not tie up to details in NMM12/13, Prints & Drawings Register of acquisitions for 1937.)
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 a 'View of the River and Shiping [sic] near the Tower' [of London] 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 C19-28. London, Liverpool, Lighthouses, etc.
caption: To the King's most excellent Majesty This View of the River & Shipping at Limehouse...Is...Inscribed...Plate 2 of a Collection of Seaports & of the River Thames | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Ann Gordon ca.1793 prints water transport: cargo vessel: merchantman [Bitish] | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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