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.

Object Details

ID: PAD1415
Type: Print
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
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