Mounted in album with PAE9907-PAE9955, PAE9957-PAE9964.; Medium includes graphite.; Page 50. The sign on the quay says 'SEARLE BOAT...', with 'BOATS LET' on the building, right, whose side parapet is surmounted by the carved arms of the City of London, probably salvaged from an old barge. The family boat and barge-building concern of George Searle at Lambeth ran from around 1763 to the late 1820s and a 'Mr Searle' is known to have bought the old Skinner's Company barge as late as 1858 and converted it for Queen's College, Oxford, as a houseboat. The barge being worked on may be the Lord Mayor's (see also PAE9224). Westminster Bridge can be seen in the left background. A small boat or wherry in the foreground has the name 'ACTIVE' carved on its stern backboard. [PvdM 2/12]