View from Rochester bridge

Mounted with PAD7507-PAD7508. One of the illustrations (p. v) to the 'hudibrastic' poetic account of 'The Five Days' Peregrination' by Ebenezer Forrest, illustrated by Scott and Hogarth, who took part in it with Forrest, James Thornhill and a friend called Tothall: 'By and by when up we got, / Sam Scott was missing, "Where's Sam Scott?" / "Oh! here he comes, Well, whence come you?" / "Why, from the bridge, taking a view."' The view is towards the Frindsbury peninsula, which saw a good deal of shipbuilding activity into the 19th century. The spire on the hill is Frindsbury church. This is not apparently the original edition, in which the illustrations were more compressed and had lettered keys. [PvdM 4/13]

Object Details

ID: PAD7506
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Scott, Samuel; Milburn, T.
Places: Unlinked place
Date made: 1772
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London