Carvings from a barge belonging to the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers.
Bust of Inigo Jones, architect of the Queen’s House, Greenwich.
The two exhibits are above are included in the National Maritime Museum’s current exhibition, ‘Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames.’
I asked David Starkey, guest curator of the exhibition, why Greenwich was the right place in which to mark and celebrate the Royal river…
