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Ratcliffe Highway

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(53567)
Number: 65
Date: 1859/1861
Medium: drypoint
Size: 152 x 226 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 4
Catalogues: K.80; M.81; T.63; W.74
Impressions taken from this plate  (4)
Ratcliffe Highway dates from between 1859 and 1861.
The etchings of London dated 1859 include Thames Warehouses [46], Old Westminster Bridge [47], Limehouse [48], Eagle Wharf [50], Black Lion Wharf [54], The Pool [49], Thames Police [53], Longshore men [52], and W. Jones, Lime-Burner, Thames Street [55]. Those dating from 1860 include Rotherhithe [70]; and from 1861, Westminster Bridge in Progress [77], The Little Rotherhithe [74] and The Little Pool [79].
Of these, Longshoremen is the closest in subject (the interior of a tavern or eating house) and Rotherhithe the nearest in site and subject (a Thames-side tavern). However, the closest subject of all is a Paris tavern scene, Soupe à trois sous [64], which probably dates from late 1859.