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 046, Old Westminster Bridge 047, Limehouse 048, Eagle Wharf 050, Black Lion Wharf 054, The Pool 049, Thames Police 053, Longshore men 052, and W. Jones, Lime-Burner, Thames Street 055. Those dating from 1860 include Rotherhithe 070; and from 1861, Westminster Bridge in Progress 077, The Little Rotherhithe 074 and The Little Pool 079.
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 064, which probably dates from late 1859.