Searle's boatyard at Lambeth, showing a City barge being repaired

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Searle's boatyard at Lambeth, showing a City barge being repaired

Mounted in album with PAE9907-PAE9955, PAE9957-PAE9964.; Medium includes graphite.; Page 50. The sign on the quay says 'SEARLE BOAT...', with 'BOATS LET' on the building, right, whose side parapet is surmounted by the carved arms of the City of London, probably salvaged from an old barge. The family boat and barge-building concern of George Searle at Lambeth ran from around 1763 to the late 1820s and a 'Mr Searle' is known to have bought the old Skinner's Company barge as late as 1858 and converted it for Queen's College, Oxford, as a houseboat. The barge being worked on may be the Lord Mayor's (see also PAE9224). Westminster Bridge can be seen in the left background. A small boat or wherry in the foreground has the name 'ACTIVE' carved on its stern backboard. [PvdM 2/12]

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Object Details

ID:	PAE9956
Type:	Drawing
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Moses, Henry
Date made:	circa 1825
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	102 mm x 184 mm
Parts:	Henry Moses (ca.1782-1870) Album of fifty-eight drawings. Ships and Dockyards 1816-1824 (Album) Dockyard scene showing various large docked sailing vessels (Drawing) (PAE9907) A naval cutterl, seen in profile view in a harbour, probably at Portsmouth, with moored sailing vessels behind, a rowing boat alongside and a buoy in foreground (Drawing) (PAE9908) Two gentlemen on a headland, one with a telescope, looking out onto a coastal shipping scene, possibly inscribed ' Sheerness' across left foreground and with inscription, 'Published by H. Moses Oct.1. 1824.' (Drawing) (PAE9909) Scene showing an artist sketching in a harbour, with inscription, 'Entrance to Portsmouth Harbour', with very slight sketches of buildings above (Drawing) (PAE9910) Indiamen laid up alongside the Bridge House at Blackwall with barrels and figures in foreground (Drawing) (PAE9911) View of Ramsgate 1816, of the beach and small sailing craft and a rowing boat in the shallow water (Drawing) (PAE9912) View of yachts underway along a river, possibly racing, with rowing boats alongside and spectators on the bank in the foreground (Drawing) (PAE9913) A view in Ramsgate 1816 of vessels moored in the harbour (Drawing) (PAE9914) Ramsgate 1816, view across harbour, showing steam and sailing vessels with heads and a parasol in foreground (Drawing) (PAE9915) Page numbered 9, hulks and large sailing vessels in a harbour, with small sailing craft and rowing boats all around and a buoy in left foreground (Drawing) (PAE9916) Medway Augt 9 1824, depicting a shipping scene with hulks, moored sailing vessels and small sailing craft and figures in the foreground (Drawing) (PAE9917) View of a coastal scene with figures and beached boats in foreground and a large naval fighting vessel moored in centre surrounded by sailing craft, hulks and other shipping (Drawing) (PAE9918) View looking out over Sheerness Basin, with inscription, 'From a Porthole near the rudder of the Trafalgar Sheerness Basin Sep 9 1824' (Drawing) (PAE9919) View across Ramsgate harbour with blocks of stone on quayside in foreground (Drawing) (PAE9920) Portsmouth Harbour: a view of shipping, probably from the Gosport side, with figures and cows in foreground (Drawing) (PAE9921) Several hulks in a harbour, apparently Indiamen at Blackwall, inscribed ' Scaleby Castle, Java, Killie Castle, Bridgewater Arms' (Drawing) (PAE9922) View at Blackwall with the hulk of 'Wellington' moored, and a Mr J Brooks, seated close by on the harbour wall (Drawing) (PAE9923) Well-dressed figures viewing the Stationers' Company barge and Lord Mayor's barge, with other London civic barges afloat beyond (Drawing) (PAE9924) Sailing vessels moored in a dockyard with figures and barrels on the quayside (Drawing) (PAE9925) Harbour scene dominated by a large warshi, the 'Albion' with a small sailing craft in left foreground and two beached boats by a battery to the right (Drawing) (PAE9926) Depicts a rocky coastline scene with figures pushing a sailing vessel out to sea from the beach (Drawing) (PAE9927) View into a harbour, shows large moored sailing vessels, and small coastal sailing craft, with boats pulled up onto the beach and a buoy in the foreground (Drawing) (PAE9928) Hulks, stern view in a harbour with a rowing boat passing beside them (Drawing) (PAE9929) View of Ramsgate with buildings to the left and large blocks of stone in the foreground, a sailing vessel moored close to the harbour wall and small coastal craft out at sea (Drawing) (PAE9930) Sketch of the stern end of a vessel in dock with a view of the dockyard and further moored vessels in the distance (Drawing) (PAE9931) View of a pier at Ramsgate, with a lighthouse, and vessels moored at its head (Drawing) (PAE9932) The 'Duchess of Atholl' being built at Blackwall with figures looking around the yard and shipping on the Thames (Drawing) (PAE9933) Harbour scene with figures on quayside in foreground and moored hulks, including 'Surat Castle', 1824 (Drawing) (PAE9934) A sailing vessel coming into a harbour with figures in rowing boats alongside (Drawing) (PAE9935) Figure in a rowing boat tied to a mooring post in the foreground looking towards a large moored naval vessel in a harbour (Drawing) (PAE9936) A view off Dover Pier and Castle, with inscriptions 'H Moses del et Sculpt' and 'Published by H Moses Sept 1 1816' (Drawing) (PAE9937) Figure in a boat tied to a mooring post in the foreground looking out towards a large sailing vessel in a harbour (Drawing) (PAE9938) 'Part of Sheerness Yard from a Bedroom Window Fountain Inn Sep 9 1824' (Drawing) (PAE9939) Shipping off Limehouse (Drawing) (PAE9940) The hulk of 'Wellington' alongside Bridge House, Blackwall, with figures standing on the quayside, some fishing (Drawing) (PAE9941) Limehouse: with a sailing vessel having its cargo of barrels unloaded and a small boat hauled up onto the bank in the foreground (Drawing) (PAE9942) Sketch of a naval vessel the 'Tweed' entering Portsmouth, with figures in rowing boats and on the shore in the foreground, and women hanging out washing, with inscriptions (Drawing) (PAE9943) Going on board a frigate at Spithead (Drawing) (PAE9944) Hulks moored in a harbour with small sailing craft and boats among them and figures on the quayside (Drawing) (PAE9945) View of Sheerness yard with inscription ' Trafalgar 120 tons In the Basin Sheerness Yard Sept 10 1824' (Drawing) (PAE9946) View across Sheerness yard showing the hulk of 'Trafalgar' with figures looking out at the yard in the foreground (Drawing) (PAE9947) View of a hulk at Blackwall, off Bridge House, with a bridge stretching across the quayside and figures fishing and standing about (Drawing) (PAE9948) Hulks and vessels moored alongside a harbour wall, with figures walking on the quayside in the foreground, men carrying a stretch of fabric and figures setting out in a rowing boat (Drawing) (PAE9949) Busy harbour scene, with large moored naval vessels and rowing boats among them on the water, with cargoes, horsedrawn carriages and small craft on the shore in the foreground (Drawing) (PAE9950) Figures on a raft tied to a mooring post in the foreground of a harbour scene, with rowing boats among moored vessels and hulks (Drawing) (PAE9951) Stern view of large, moored sailing vessels with coastal sailing craft and rowing boats passing beside them and a buoy in the foreground (Drawing) (PAE9952) A boat rowing out to a hulk in a harbour (Drawing) (PAE9953) View of Sheerness Yard, inscribed ' Sheerness Yard from a window of the Fountain Inn Published by H Moses Oct 1 1824' (Drawing) (PAE9954) Sketch of the hulk of 'Trafalgar' 120 Guns moored at Sheerness (Drawing) (PAE9955) Searle's boatyard at Lambeth, showing a City barge being repaired (Drawing) (PAE9956) An armed naval vessel passing in front of a distant coastline with other shipping in the distance and rowing boats and a buoy in the foreground (Drawing) (PAE9957) Hulk of ' Trafalgar 120 Guns - In the Basin Sheerness - Sep 9 1824' (Drawing) (PAE9958) View of a moored, armed naval vessel, probably at Portsmouth, with a rowing boat and a small sailing vessel alongside, with further shipping in the distance and a buoy in the foreground (Drawing) (PAE9959) View of various sailing vessels in a port, probably the London docks, with cargo, figures and buildings on the quayside to the left (Drawing) (PAE9960) A hulk moored in a dockyard with rowing boats and a small sailing craft passing by its stern and figures on the quayside (Drawing) (PAE9961) Beach scene inscribed 'Rocks near Folkstone' with further faded indecipherable inscriptions (Drawing) (PAE9962) Figures working in Cox &Curlin's Yard, Limehouse, with a ship alongside, and barrels, an anchor and a capstan in the left foreground (Drawing) (PAE9963) Moored hulks in a harbour with small sailing craft, a rowing boat and a buoy in the foreground (Drawing) (PAE9964)