Peter Ackroyd - Thames: The Biography  

Contents

For Penelope Hoare

List of Illustrations

SECTION ONE

The source of the Thames at Trewsbury Mead.

Objects found in the Thames:
the tooth of a mammoth;
dagger and scabbard, 550450 BC
bronze bust of the Emperor Hadrian, c.AD 122.

Medieval pilgrim badges thrown in the Thames.

Ducking a Scold, 1812, etching by Thomas Rowlandson (17561827).

Angler on the riverbank, woodcut of 1663.

The Oarsmans and Anglers Map, 1893.

Radcot Bridge, the oldest bridge across the Thames, photographed in the 1900s.

Nets for catching eels near London, photographed in the 1890s.

An old fisherman and weir-keeper called Harper, Oxfordshire. Photographed by Henry Taunt, 1900.

Mapledurham mill, photographed in the 1900s.

A traveller waiting to be ferried across the Thames, woodcut of 1684.

A ferryman taking two men and a boy across the Thames at Cliveden. Photographed by Henry Taunt, 1885.

SECTION TWO

Fifteenth-century map of Chertsey Abbey, Surrey, and its surrounding land and farms.

Dorchester Abbey, Near Wallingford, Autumn Evening, watercolour by Newton Bennett (18541914).

The Tower of London (vellum), French school, fifteenth century.

Lambeth Palace. Coloured engraving by Johannes Kip (c.16521722) after Leonard Knyff (16501721).

Windsor Castle, from the river meadow on the Thames, c.182730. Colour litho, from The Views of Windsor, Eton and Virginia Water by William Daniell (17691837).

Westminster with ceremonial barge of the Ironmongers Company, c.1745. Oil painting by Samuel Scott (c.170272).

Old London Bridge, c.1630. Oil painting by Claude de Jongh (c.161063).

New London Bridge, 1 August 1831, the day it was first opened. Pen, ink and watercolour on paper, English school, nineteenth century.

The Greenwich Railway Viaduct at Deptford, 1836. Colour litho, nineteenth century. By G. F. Bragg.

The millennium footbridge of the year 2000. St. Pauls, London. Photographed by Marc Atkins.

Doggetts Coat and Badge Rowing Race, c.1820. One of the plates from Fashion and Folly.

Henley Regatta, photographed in the 1900s.

Pleasure boats on the Thames below Whitchurch Lock, Pangbourne. From a postcard of 1907.

Going through the lock at Goring-on-Thames. Photographed in the 1900s.

Poster of 1926 by Gregory Brown. Produced by the Southern Railway to advertise their day trips along the Thames.

SECTION THREE

Howland Great Wet Dock, Rotherhithe. Engraving of 1717 by Johannes Kip.

Perrys Dock at Blackwall. Etching of 1806 by Thomas Rowlandson (17561827).

The East India Docks. Engraving of 1808 by William Daniell (17691837).

Elevated view of the docks at Wapping. Engraving of 1803 by Thomas Daniell (17491840) and William Daniell (17691837).

Inside the Docks by Gustave Dor.

Billingsgate fish market. Engraving of 1810 by Thomas Rowlandson (17561827). Published by Thomas Tegg in 1796.

The Thames Tunnel built by Sir Marc Isambard Brunel. From an illustrated article of 1827.

The Fleet sewer in 1840. Watercolour on paper, English school, nineteenth century.

Faraday giving his card to Father Thamesand we hope the Dirty Fellow will consult the learned Professor. Cartoon from Punch, 21 July 1855.

The Thames Embankment. Plate from the Illustrated London News, 1867.

A Smock Mill on the Thames. Watercolour by Peter de Wint (17841849).

Lambeth in 1836, showing Godings New Lion Ale Brewery, Fowlers Iron Works and Walkers Shot Manufactory. Aquatint by Francis Calcraft Turner (c.17821846).

Unloading barrels at London docks, 1930s.

Lots Road Power Station at night. Chelsea, London. Photographed by Daily Herald staff photographer, George Woodbine, on 26 November 1931.

The Thames Barrier, photographed by Marc Atkins.

Canary Wharf, photographed by Marc Atkins.

SECTION FOUR

Kew Gardens: The Pagoda and Bridge, 1762. Oil on canvas, by Richard Wilson (171482).

Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayors Procession on the Thames, 1747. Oil on canvas, by Canaletto (16971768).

Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Watercolour on paper, c.1805, by Joseph Mallord William Turner (17751851).

Rain, Steam and Speedthe Great Western Railway, painted before 1844. Oil on canvas, by Joseph Mallord William Turner (17751851).

Willows Beside a Stream, 1805. Oil on canvas, by Joseph Mallord William Turner (17751851).

Water Willow, 1871. Oil on canvas, by Dante Charles Gabriel Rossetti (182882).

Grey and Silver: The Thames. Oil on canvas, by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (18341903).

The Little Pool. Etching, by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (18341903).

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College from The Poems of Thomas Gray, published 179798 and illustrated by William Blake (17571827). Watercolour and black ink on paper.

Baptism, 1952. Oil on canvas, by Stanley Spencer (18911959).

Illustration by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne, 181582) for David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

Illustration by Marcus Stone for Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens.

The thing whirred up into the air, & hung poised on its wings: Tom and the dragonflies. Illustration by Warwick Goble for the 1909 edition of The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley.

Alice in Wonderland: Alice swimming in the pool of tears. Illustration by John Tenniel for the 1890 edition of The Nursery Alice by Lewis Carroll.

Joness salad. Illustration of 1879 by Randolph Caldecott for Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.

Shove that under your feet, he observed to the Mole, as he passed it down into the boat. Ratty, Mole and the picnic basket. Illustration by Arthur Rackham for the 1939 edition of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.

Barrage Balloons Outside a British Port, pencil and watercolour on paper, by Eric Ravilious.

Hadleigh Castlethe mouth of the Thamesmorning after a stormy night, 1829. Oil on canvas, by John Constable.

List of Maps

Maps to illustrate An Alternative Topography