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City Basin, Regent's Canal. To Sir Culling Smith, Bart. This plate is respectfully inscribed
Mounted with PAD1416-PAD1417.
An engraving after a work by the artist Thomas H Shepherd, famous for his depictions of London in the 1820s. The engraving shows lighters and barges in the City Road Basin (not the City Basin) in Islington, one of the busiest loading and unloading points on the canal. The Regent's Canal was built to link the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal (opened in 1801) with the Lower Pool of London at Limehouse. It enabled goods arriving in London to be moved by barge anywhere on the main canal network. Work began in 1812 and the canal opened in 1820.
An engraving after a work by the artist Thomas H Shepherd, famous for his depictions of London in the 1820s. The engraving shows lighters and barges in the City Road Basin (not the City Basin) in Islington, one of the busiest loading and unloading points on the canal. The Regent's Canal was built to link the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal (opened in 1801) with the Lower Pool of London at Limehouse. It enabled goods arriving in London to be moved by barge anywhere on the main canal network. Work began in 1812 and the canal opened in 1820.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAD1415 |
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| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Jones & Co; Havell, Frederick James Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer |
| Places: | Unlinked place |
| Date made: | 26 Jan 1828 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Mount: 178 mm x 124 mm |