Coloured lithograph depicting the steam ship City of Paris. She was the first iron steamer built in Greenwich by W. Joyce & Co. and she had simplified machinery designed by the firm which worked well until she was converted to screw at Renfrew in 1870 (H. Parker and F. C. Bowen, Mail and Passenger Steamships of the XIXth Century, p. 68). In this (late?) state of the print, (as opposed to an ealier state, PAH8953) the rigging and flags have been incorrectly interpreted, and there is a facsimile signature "T. Packer, lith". The inscription is the same.