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Title
The Hibbert Gate
Date
2000
Medium
bronze & stone
Accession number
E14_AM_S035
Acquisition method
commissioned by Canary Wharf Group
Work type
Gateway
Owner
Canary Wharf Group
Custodian
Canary Wharf Group
Work status
extant
Access
at all times
Inscription description
incised letters on the pediment of the arch: THE / WEST INDIA / IMPORT DOCK BEGAN / 12TH. JULY 1800: / OPENED FOR BUSINESS 1ST. SEPT. 1802.; raised letters on bronze plaque affixed to arch: This full scale replica of the Main Gate to the West India Dock / was opened on 12 July 2000 / by / Ken Livingstone, MP / Mayor of London / to mark the 200th Anniversary of the founding of the Dock / by William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1783–1801; 1804–1806); raised letters on second bronze plaque affixed to arch: The Hibbert, 2,405 ton Westindiaman, traded from this dock between / 1785 and 1813, principally to Jamaica. All drawings of the ship are / now lost but this model by the artist Leo Stevenson, was made according / to extensive reasearch into original photographs and records of the period
