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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Captain, customs officer, amateur painter, draughtsman, watercolourist and etcher: the many occupations of Captain Thomas Hastings (1778–1854). Pictured is another drawing from a #sketchbook attributed to him, containing drawings of recognisable buildings in #Dover, including the Maison Dieu.

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

A sketchbook open at a page with a nineteenth century drawing of part of the Maison Dieu building in Dover.

A recent colour photograph of the Maison Dieu building in Dover featuring the same part as the nineteenth century drawing

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

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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