File:'The West India Docks in the Isle of Dogs with Greenwich Hospital in the Foreground, Drawn in the Camera Obscura of the Observatory' RMG PU2204.tiff

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Pugh; Reeve; Richard Phillips
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English: 'The West India Docks in the Isle of Dogs with Greenwich Hospital in the Foreground, Drawn in the Camera Obscura of the Observatory'

This is one of two views, the other being towards London, which Pugh drew from the viewing-table of the camera obscura in the east pavilion of Flamsteed House, and which were included in the book 'Modern London' published by Richard Phillips in 1805. The somewhat flattened perspective supports how it was done, and that being so, it is topographically accurate in outline if not in architectural detail. It is therefore a significant document, less for what it shows of the distant West India Docks and their crowded masts, than the grounds layout round the Queen's House, right at the end of its use as a grace-and-favour residence for the Ranger of Greenwich Park.

In 1806 it became the Royal Naval Asylum, with its colonnades and flanking wings begun in 1807, erasing the features seen to left, right and beyond as far as Romney Road and the Hospital buildings. It confirms that at this point the House gave directly onto the Park on the south side, with high walls set back to the south corners of the building and carriage access to the Orangery entrance. It shows the service building also seen in other views to the right and the early 18th-century bricking in of the central roadway, with windows inserted, creating rooms removed in the 1930s restoration. The division and use of garden ground to the left lacks explanation, but it does not stretch as far west (left) as the Greenwich Hospital Burying Ground boundary. It seems likely that the ground at this time may have been infilled up to Park level to the east and west of the house, as shown here, with a steep drop between the fenced area and the base of the tree beyond it on the left here. Useful comparisons can be made with PAF3012 and PAF2868, although these drawings by John Charnock clearly have some distortions and discrepancies. Also PAJ2659 (1781), which with Charnock suggests Pugh has possibly omitted a railed connection across the set-back in the Park wall, and that the connection of the wall to the corners of the House may date to between 1781 and 1804.

'The West India Docks in the Isle of Dogs, with Greenwich Hospital in the foreground. Drawn in the Camera Obscura of the Observatory.'
Date 11 August 1804
date QS:P571,+1804-08-11T00:00:00Z/11
Dimensions Mount: 7 1/4 in x 9 1/4 in
Notes Box Title: Greenwich 1800-1828.
Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/106355
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