Commercial Docks<br><p>Print entitled 'Commercial Docks'. A copper-plate print of the Surrey Commercial Docks at Rotherhithe. They date back to the 17th century, covered about ten acres in Queen Anne's time and were then used by Greenland whalers and later the Baltic timber trade as the Greenland Dock. They were improved and opened as the 'Commercial Docks' in 1809, remaining substantially for timber importing, as the print shows. The view is plate 42 in George Cooke's 'Views of London and its Vicinity', completed in 1834, and is inscribed 'G. Cooke's London' on a baulk of timber lower right.<br></p>
Commercial Docks
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George Cooke; J. and A. Arch; Longmand and Co; S. Hawkins</div>
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