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The Thames as a gateway to foreign trade routes. Etching by J. Barry, 1791.
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The Thames as a gateway to foreign trade routes. Etching by J. Barry, 1791.

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Lettering: The Thames, or the triumph of navigation. Nor are his blessings to his banks confin'd But free and common as the sea or wind, So that to us, nothing no place is strange While his fair bosom is the world's exchange.--Denham. Painted, engraved & publish'd by James Barry, R.A. Professor of Painting to the Royal Academy May 1. 1791. 5th. Verses quoted in lettering are from Cooper's Hill, verses 179-180 and 187-188, by John Denham, 1642, published in his Poems and translations (1668)

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