A View of the London Docks 1808 Frame:none Street scene showing a cab

Street scene showing a cab driving past a print shop on Cheapside

or upon bare boards

hand-rendered and airbrushed charts

A number of carts are lined along the roadway on the north side

Engraving from the book 'The Works of William Hogarth' published in 1822

A View of the London Docks 1808 Frame:none Street scene showing a cabA coloured aquatint print of the the five massive warehouses of the western dock which were designed by the Dock Company's surveyor, Daniel Asher Alexander. They line the quay at the centre of the image, to the right lies the Wapping Entrance Lock with the River Thames beyond. Left of the dock stands Hawksmoor's St George in the East. In the far distance, the West India Docks can be glimpsed on the Isle of Dogs, and beyond, the mast house of the East