Hand-coloured. A view of Blackwall with Greenwich Hospital visible in the distance. The river is busy with merchant ships at anchor, being unloaded by barges. To the left a ship is being built in what would have been Perry's Blackwall yard at the time, later Green's. Large piles of wood sit nearby, testimony to the huge amount of timber that was required in the shipbuilding trade in this period. While a lively scene, the print itself is a re-engraved and cruder reversed copy - possibly French from the engraver's name - from a better English one published by John Boydell, with the correct title 'A View of Blackwall looking towards Greenwich': see PAH2199 for this, which correctly shows the yard on the north bank of the river and the Hospital on the south (here reversed), though the view in both is from the east. [PvdM 9/19]