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A painting showing two barques, the 'Castle Holme' and the 'Endymion', moored on the River Thames at Limehouse Docks, London. The 'Castle Holme' is shown port bow view and the smaller 'Endymion' starboard bow view. On the far left is the tower of St Dunstan and All Saints Church, Stepney. In the centre, immediately behind 'Castle Holme' is the Hawskmoor tower of St Anne's, Limehouse. On the extreme right, projecting above the piled jetty, is the mast and sprit of a Thames spritsail barge. The yellow block of colour between the two barques is supposed to represent a sawn timber cargo that has been unloaded. If this is true, and the painting is meant to be of vessels in an enclosed dock rather th...
1921
Oil on paper
472.0 x 627.0mm
BHC4128
Image and text © Royal Museums Greenwich, 2021

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Queen’s House
Permanent collection