Putney Bridge 1793 Frame:natural they reveal a rich tapestry

they reveal a rich tapestry of Caribbean British lives

Made from 100% cotton

circa 1860

some of them foreigners can be seen in the foreground

It seems probable that Robert Havell Jr took the panorama to America in 1839

Putney Bridge 1793 Frame:natural they reveal a rich tapestryPutney Bridge. Coloured aquatint. View of Putney Bridge, with boats on the river and a group of fishermen casting a net from the shore. From 'A History of the River Thames', J. & J. Boydell, London: 1793 96. Boydell's famous work on the Thames, with plates after Joseph Farington, takes the form of a journey, illustrated by prints with descriptions, starting at Thames Head near Cirencester in Gloucestershire, via Oxford, Henley, Reading, London, and