Cattle grazing below high water, Isle of Dogs (1792)
A detail from Robert Dodd's 'Greenwich from the Isle of Dogs', cropped to show a part of the Isle of Dogs of which no other 18th century image exists.
The land, reclaimed marsh - rich grazing for cattle - was below high water mark and defended by artificial embankments. If these were not kept in repair, there could be serious flooding. In this scene a group of people is waiting for the ferry, which ran from the southern tip of the peninsula
