Lupton executed this mezzotint of Girtin’s watercolor 23 years after the watercolorist’s death. It is part of the series Gems of Art, published by W.B. Cooke (1778–1855), which includes mezzotints by Lupton and others reproducing a variety of famous old master paintings. It may be surprising that a watercolor like Girtin’s serene and elegant Chelsea Reach (sometimes called The White House at Chelsea, see below) was included in the series. But the watercolor was Girtin’s most celebrated work and caused the famous painter J.M.W. Turner to comment about Girtin’s short life: “had poor Tom lived, I would have starved.”