print
- Museum number
- 1875,0508.1416
- Title
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Object: A View of Gravesend in Kent, with Troops passing the Thames to Tilbury Fort
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Series: A Collection of Views of old London and its environs
- Description
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View on the Thames at Gravesend; small military boats and barges in foreground transporting troops; soldiers stand waiting on riverbank to the left; a later state published by F. West. 1780, this state c.1840
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1780
- Dimensions
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Height: 300 millimetres
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Width: 453 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This print was first published by Bowles in 1780.
This impression was published later as part of West's mid-nineteenth century Collection of Views, consisting of plates from the stock of John Bowles and his successors, all made around the mid-eighteenth century.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1875
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1875,0508.1416
