View of the Surrey Canal, Deptford, London Size:XL: 100 x 75cm A woman with a yoke

A woman with a yoke across her neck and shoulders in order to carry two large pails of milk through the streets

looks up at a tall man in tail coat and enormously wide brimmed felt hat

which were not originally given dedications

in the rear a woman in a similar skirt is being hoisted on the roof of a coach while through an archway on right a weeping girl is being interrogated under the canopy of her own skirt

View of the Surrey Canal, Deptford, London Size:XL: 100 x 75cm A woman with a yokeView of the Surrey Canal, Deptford, London, c1840. The Surrey Canal where it's crossed by Trundley's Road, with a steam train passing over the bridge.