Cargo being loaded or unloaded from a ship, Royal Victoria Dock, Canning Town, London 1st Duke of Newcastle holding his boat steady while

holding his boat steady while a young man assists his beloved to embark at the foot of some steps

'What a scandalous shame it is that they are allow'd to take people off in this here kind of way'

Plan of the City of London and surrounding area showing fortifications erected during the English Civil War

while alarmed drovers shout and wave sticks to warn him off

Hogarth made the engraving in retaliation for a satirical attack made on him by Churchill in the epistle

Cargo being loaded or unloaded from a ship, Royal Victoria Dock, Canning Town, London 1st Duke of Newcastle holding his boat steady whileCargo being loaded or unloaded from a ship, Royal Victoria Dock, Canning Town, London, c1930. The dock was built between 1850 and 1855 on an area of Plaistow Marshes. It was the first London dock to be built specifically to handle large steamships and the first to be connected to the national rail network.