Black Lion Wharf - Public domain portrait print

In front, in a barge on the Thames, a man wearing a cap on the back of his head sits facing to the right, resting his left arm on the side of the barge. On the river are two figures in a boat at the right. Near the center, by a landing-stage, is a barge loaded with barrels. Across the stream, barges lie in front of a dilapidated wharf, and a barge with furled sail lies alongside the bow of a large vessel. A rambling warehouse at the right, back of which towers a huge dark building, bears the sign, "Blac Lion Wharf." Adjoining the warehouse on the left is a narrow dwelling-house, next a broad house with a balcony and with the sign, "St. Andrews." Picturesque buildings extend from the broad house to a large warehouse with tiled roof, behind which rises a tall chimney from which smoke issues. On a wharf near the extreme left, there is a dark warehouse vessel listing toward the wharf. Upon the large warehouse are the signs, "Downes" and "Old Shipping Clippers to let Every Day. Glasgow, Inverness, Grangemouth, Peterham." Upon the dark warehouse, Hore's Wharf," also "Hoare's Wharf." Near the right lower corner, "Whistler, 1859."
Courtesy of Boston Public Library