Billingsgate, 1859 RMG PW5493 - Drawing. Public domain image.
Billingsgate, 1859 For many centuries Billingsgate was the main wharf for the mooring of fishing vessels and landing their cargoes. Billingsgate was the site of a fish market on the north bank of the river betw... More
Black Lion Wharf, 1859 RMG PW5495
Black Lion Wharf, 1859 A view of Black Lion Wharf. A sign on one of the buildings along the wharf reads, ‘Old Shipping Clippers To Let Everyday’. The Black Lion Wharf later became part of the London and Contine... More
Free Trade Wharf RMG PW5483 - Drawing. Public domain image.
Free Trade Wharf A view of the Thames from Limehouse, with Free Trade Wharf in Ratcliffe on the right. This busy wharf occupied several warehouses built by the East India Company in the 1790s. In 1871 the build... More
H.M.S. Virago - off Scilly in the gale of Novr 1st 1859 RMG PY9244
H.M.S. Virago... off Scilly in the gale of Novr 1st 1859 Hand-coloured. H.M.S. Virago... off Scilly in the gale of Novr 1st 1859
HMS Victoria 121 guns (The last three-decker-launched in 1859) RMG PU6...
HMS Victoria 121 guns (The last three-decker-launched in 1859) Print
Limehouse, 1859 RMG PW5482 - Drawing. Public domain image.
Limehouse, 1859 The buildings of Limehouse are shown on the right with the Thames and shipping in the distance on the left. The low viewpoint shows a complex arrangement of boats, masts, wooden piles and buildi... More
Long Shore Men (45) 1859 RMG PU8035
Long Shore Men (45) 1859 A drypoint etching of a group of four men gathered around a table in a pub. The men wear caps, and two of them smoke pipes. A woman and child sit at the end of the table on the right. T... More
Old Westminster Bridge, 1859 RMG PW5485
Old Westminster Bridge, 1859 Whistler's etching of Labelye's original Westminster Bridge, opened in 1750. This was number four of Whistler's 'Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subject... More
Thames Police, 1859 RMG PW5487 - Drawing. Public domain image.
Thames Police, 1859 A view of the Thames at low tide, at Wapping Wharf. The Thames Police tower stands on the right, next to a building marked “Wapping Wharf.” Thames police officers and their skiffs pulled up... More
Thames Police, 1859 RMG PW5487 - Drawing. Public domain image.
Thames Police, 1859 A view of the Thames at low tide, at Wapping Wharf. The Thames Police tower stands on the right, next to a building marked “Wapping Wharf.” Thames police officers and their skiffs pulled up... More
Thames warehouses, 1859 RMG PW5486
Thames warehouses, 1859 A view of the river Thames showing the Hermitage Coal Wharf and other wharves in Wapping. The warehouses on the left have signs which read “Fred Vink &Co / Rope & Sail Makers / Smith & S... More
The Explosion on board the Great Eastern Steam Ship, off Hastings, on ...
The Explosion on board the Great Eastern Steam Ship, off Hastings, on the 9th September, 1859 The 'Great Eastern' left the Thames on 7 September 1859. Two days later, when she was passing the south coast, a ter... More
The Pool, 1859 RMG PW5488 - Drawing. Public domain image.
The Pool, 1859 One of Whistler's 'Series of Sixteen Etchings on the Thames', this is a view across the river in the Pool of London. In the foreground a river worker sits in a small rowing boat. This crowded sce... More
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Express on the Corbierre Rocks, Jersey, pr...
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Express on the Corbierre Rocks, Jersey, previous to her breaking up 20th September, 1859 Print
Torino Battello ad Elice di Bandiera Sarda 1859 Tonnellate 300 Cavalli...
Torino Battello ad Elice di Bandiera Sarda 1859 Tonnellate 300 Cavalli Della Compagnia Transatlantica per la Navigazione a vapore Print Torino Battello ad Elice di Bandiera Sarda 1859 Tonnellate 300 Cavalli De... More
Wreck of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Express off the Corbiere, Jersey,...
Wreck of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Express off the Corbiere, Jersey, September 20th 1859 Print