Ratcliffe Highway |  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.