Print. Print. A plan of the Royal Dockyard at Plymouth, surveyed and drawn by Thomas Milton with shipping by John Cleveley the Elder. Cleveley was a shipwright by profession and became an artist relatively late in life. He spent most of his working life at the Royal Dockyard in Deptford, and specialized in painting ship launches. Milton was son of John Milton, a minor marine artist (active c. 1743-76). Thomas was only born in 1742/3 and died in 1827 so it has to be assumed that even if he did survey and draw the yard as the inscription suggests, his father was probably also involved and was bringing him to notice as a printmaker and topographical draughtsman in this way. 'I. Milton, suggesting John as surveyor and delineator, aaaappears on the Chatham print, unless simply an engraver error. The plate is one of a set of the dockyards, Cleveley being involved for the prints of Sheerness, Chatham, and Plymouth dockyards (1755–6): the others of Deptford, Woolwich, and Portsmouth were published in 1753-4.