This is one of the earliest and most detailed record of shipbuilding and repair in Bristol, drawn around 1760. It shows the different stages of shipbuilding at the wet and dry docks owned by four generations of the Sydenham Teast family. In the centre is the dry dock with its gates open at low tide. To the left a ship is on its side being cleared of incrustations. St Mary Redcliffe and the site of the Museum of Bristol can be seen in the drawing on low right of the decorative border.