The Barge Menders, Limehouse

Limehouse Docks, London; foreground, two canal barges on sand banks and paint tins on a chest; middleground, quayside / pier, mooring posts, ladders, timber, the sheds of a shipbuilding yard and numerous shipbuilders at work including two men moving a plank, one man brushing a boat and four men working on timbers; background, a lamp post, workers, cats and a house with louvers, a bay window, a balcony and a fenced flat roof around a chimney. Sky and foreground left unworked. Text on image, names of the barges, 'DONALD' and 'MILDRED', and, business name on house, 'TAYLOR WALKER ..... AND PORTER'.