A stock catalogue to accompany a selling exhibition organised as a fringe event of the City of London Festival July 1988. Catalogue of an exhibition of prints offered for sale by Elizabeth Harvey-Lee at the Newgate Gallery Ltd, London, 5th-16th July 1988. In the 17th & 18th centuries the river was a flourishing life line, the main artery of communication, a broad channel full of busy craft; the city an impressive backdrop of towers and steeples. The city streets were narrow so that the water offered the easiest, if not the only, means of a general view. London was unique in having its port at the very centre of the city, the Pool of London lying immediately below London Bridge. Until the opening of the new docks further east in the 19th century, all shipping unloaded at the Pool. As the city grew and spread west, artists portrayed reaches higher up the Thames at Battersea and Chelsea and beyond. The print trade moved west too, from St. Pauls to St. James and Bond Street, when the lea