File:Chart of the River Thames from London to the Nore, Margate and the Downs, North, Middle and South Channels, from a survey taken in 1789 and 90 RMG F0204.tiff
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Richard Stanier |
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English: Chart of the River Thames from London to the Nore, Margate and the Downs, North, Middle and South Channels, from a survey taken in 1789 and 90Single sheet. Hand coloured engraving, executed in a hand-written style. This chart was drawn for pilotage of the Thames, with sketches of riverside landmarks.. Scale [ca. 1:200,000 (bar)]. North is at 2 degrees. This ungraduated chart contains a list of reaches and their bearings; a table of banks, shoals and sands with the depth of floods and time of high water at full and change, and illustrations of buoys and beacons. The chart was drawn for pilotage of the Thames, with sketches of riverside landmarks.There is an inset of the Yantlet towards the top of the sheet. The title cartouche is decorated with a sailor and a woman dancing, between an anchor and compass in the foreground and Thames shipping in background. G218:8/1 Thames Estuary |
| Date | 1790 |
| Dimensions | Printed area 48 x 56.5cm, on sheet 57 x 76.5cm. |
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/540251 |
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The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
| Identifier | id number: G218:8/1 |
| Collection | Charts and maps |
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