Havell (Daniel)

a  nice example of this relatively scarce aquatint, one of only three views after the English topographical painter, Henry Haseler, taken from near the Royal Observatory on the high ridge overlooking Greenwich Hospital, with deer resting in the shade of the foreground before the land drops sharply down to the Thames, the vista stretching out over the marshy plain of the Isle of Dogs to the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral in the distance, the waterway busy with river craft and noticeably larger ships around Deptford, to our left,

original hand-coloured aquatint, on wove paper watermarked ‘J. Whatman 1815’, 430 x 615 mm. (17 x 24 1/4 in), slight surface dirt towards the sheet edges of the wide, grey-washed, margins, the lower sheet edges with handling creases and a small loss towards the left corner, but all well outside the plate, the image in good, clean, condition,