In the foreground are two cottages, with a porch apiece and a chimney-stack between them. In a garden to the left, bordering on the water, linen is hung out to dry. There are two women near the second porch and one standing on the shore to the right ; a man stands near the water far to the left. Across the harbour the railway hotel is seen towards the left, and to the right of the cottage roof are houses, sheds and vessels. The downs form a background to the whole.
Water in front, with the signature in full on the right ; then a belt of trees and the portico and dome of the Exhibition buildings brightly lighted against a black sky.
Water in front, with the signature in full on the right ; then a belt of trees and the portico and dome of the Exhibition buildings brightly lighted against a black sky.
The square building of the castle is seen In the distance. The foreground Is crowded with sheds, shipping offices and boats; a swan swims on the left. The volume of the smoke greatly increased. Additional shading in many places. A man standing near the right end of the long boat In front has been replaced by a man seated, looking to the front.
The square building of the castle is seen In the distance. The foreground Is crowded with sheds, shipping offices and boats; a swan swims on the left. Light smoke drifts to the left from a small funnel In front of the London & Hull shed.
The spire of the Cathedral is seen in the distance. In the foreground is a wharf, at which men are busy round boats and a lorry, and on the left is a building with GREAT (EA)STERN HOTEL on its side. Additional shading near the stern of the boat, and on the water beneath it. On the left, the boat, previously Incomplete, has been carried on to the edge of the plate.
A narrow house of four storeys, with a staircase open to the street. At the entrance is a notice Lodgings for Men, Good Beds, and to the right a placard, Grand Theatre, Superb Sights. At the top and bottom are decorative scrolls; on the former is the title, Old Glasgow, in dry point.
A lane, open in the foreground, leads between a fence and a stone wall into a cluster of old houses. One of these, with trees on either side of it, is curiously narrow and has a high, steeply-pitched roof. Low down on the right is the title Old Linlithgow.
A sketch of building operations in connection with the Holborn to Strand improvement. On the right a row of carts is drawn up at the foot of a high, blank wall. The sky in the left corner consists of very fine lines, close together and almost perpendicular, extending I in. or 25 mm. from the left edge. The smoke on the left is light. Just to the right of the high-pitched roof in the middle of the plate some tall projecting spars shown in the trial proofs have been burnished out and replaced by low chimney-pots nearly of equal height.