A rather naive but very good documentary drawing of Woolwich Dockyard in the late 18th century seen from the 'River Thames' as inscribed in the foreground. The parish church of St Mary Magdalene (1732-39) is on the left marked number 1. Seven building slips or dry docks are marked number 2 along the river wall, some with ships under construction or repair (including in a double dry-dock second from right). Numbers 4 to 6 mark other buildings, though without a visible key (which may be cropped off the photo image, TBC). The surviving Clock House (Dockyard offices) of 1783-84 is either not present unless it is the building behind others between the second and third slip right of the church, but not yet with its clock turret added. There is a small fishing boat, with men hauling in a net lower left, with two cutter-rigged hoys and another rowing boat behind; a ketch rigged Navy yacht or sloop of about 16 guns is at right centre, and a barge rigged as a sheer-hulk far right. The style is broadly 'amateur' and reminiscent of John Charnock, by whom the Museum has many examples, though he is even more diagrammatic in most cases. PAH3220, of Deptford Dockyard (in watercolour), appears to be by the same hand. [PvdM 10/19]