(Updated April 2024) This is a rare view of Crowley's Wharf and warehouse, looking west towards Greenwich Hospital from the projecting western corner of what is now Anchor Iron Wharf. Figures on the quayside overlook three lighters and a ramp or parbuckling slope going down to the water in the angle of the river wall, with small boats lightly sketched out in the river. Other vessels are also moored alongside with more off Crane Wharf, beyond the riverfront Crown and Sceptre tavern a weather-boarded timber building dating from at least the 1770s that was the easternmost on Crane Street before it opens on Trinity Hospital Wharf.

Only the front garden wall of Trinity Hospital is lightly shown, while Crowley House immediately to its left (east) is invisible behind the large riverfront warehouse building. This is on three floors, the middle one being the highest and with a large east-facing window. Two warehouse derricks, folded back, flank the goods doors facing the river on the upper floors, while the ground floor is set back behind a covered passageway along the river's edge. A house with dentelled eves and a central arch or door stands immediately to the left, also facing the river. Its style suggests a date of about 1700 and by the 19th century it had become the 'Golden Anchor' inn. The warehouse is that built in 1704/5 by the Newcastle ironmaster Sir Ambrose Crowley after he acquired what became Crowley House in 1704, though the low 'mezzanine' infill and chimney in the angle of the building is a later addition. The warehouse was demolished in 1853 and Crowley House was cleared away in May 1855 after failing to find a new buyer. The site then remained generally open, with later use as a horse-drawn tram depot and stables, until Greenwich Power Station was built there from 1906.

The drawing is inscribed lower right 'Greenwich 22/2', with '25' between horizontal lines adjacent and 'Morn[in]g' in pencil at an angle, upper right. It must pre-date 1837 since the prominent Trafalgar Tavern, built in that year, is not shown. For Crowley House, see PAH3265.