'Sheers in Woolwich Dockyard' Gurney & Co City of London

City of London

Huggins is painted half-length

Comedian and actor Peter Cook smoking a cigarette

boats and barges on the water

with a dark green gown over a white shirt and neck-cloth

'Sheers in Woolwich Dockyard' Gurney & Co City of LondonElevation showing sheers holding a mast stepped into a pier, with details of the iron hoops and plates. The figures are accompanied by an explanatory key. Plate 4 from the book Improvements in naval architecture, by Oliver Lang (Woolwich, 1853). The plate is headed 'SHEERS IN WOOLWICH DOCKYARD' and is inscribed below 'H. W. Hampton Del. Day & Son, Lithrs. To the Queen.' Oliver Lang (1777 1853) was a master shipwright at the Royal Naval Dockyard at