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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Captain, customs officer, amateur painter, draughtsman, watercolourist and etcher: the many occupations held by Captain Thomas Hastings (1778–1854). The pictured sketchbook is attributed to him, and it contains drawings of recognisable scenes in #Dover, including St Nicholas' #church in Barfrestone.

A closed landscape sketchbook with marbled decorative cover. The sketchbook cover is worn with age. It is closed with an metal clasp.

The sketchbook is open at a page with a pencil drawing of the outside of a Norman church in Barfrestone called St Nicholas' church. The picture is of the East end, featuring its wheel window.

A recent photograph of the outside of a Norman church called St Nicholas' in Barfrestone. The picture is of the East end, featuring its wheel window.

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

During his military career, Thomas was trained in land-surveying at High Wycombe. Sketching was a part of their senior officer training, so they could record the terrain armies needed to pass through for military operations.

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Alongside his careers in the military and customs service, Thomas produced a number of artworks of the places he lived and visited, which developed into producing work for art exhibitions, taking professional commissions and publishing engravings.

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