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Description: | A plan of the Royal Dockyard at Chatham, surveyed and drawn by John Milton (active c. 1743-76) with shipping by by John Clevely the Elder. Cleveley was a shipwright by profession and became an artist relatively late in life. He spent much of his working life at the Royal Dockyard in Deptford, and specialized in painting ship launches. Milton was a minor marine artist artist whose son. Thomas, who appears to be the dedicator of the plate, was only born in 1742/3 and died in 1827. It has to be assumed that the father was the main artist in the enterprise rather than a teenage boy, whom he may have been bringing to notice as a printmaker and topographical draughtsman in this way (which Thomas certainly was). The plate is one of a set of the dockyards.
Box Title: Seaports D18 England. inc. Deptford, Portsmouth, Chatham, Cowes.
From Loans Collection?
caption: A Geometrical Plan & North West Elevation of his Majesty's Dock-Yard at Chatham, with ye village of Brompton adjacent. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | prints | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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