Paintings, Prints & Drawings — C. 1872
Blackwall
Facing south-west towards Cubitt Town, Isle of Dogs, the river front at Blackwall Reach displays an array of dry docks. The artist has depicted a couple of paddle streamers, ships moored on the river and Thames barges, as well as a waterman rowing passengers across from Brunswick stairs on the right.
Considering that Blackwall had the most famous private shipping yard in the country, it is surprising that the site was so little depicted. By providing an accurate record of Blackwell's little-known riverside landscape, this painting is of considerable interest and may represent a lesser version of the lost 'Blackwall', which Charles Hemy is known to have considered one of his principal works.
A regular exhibitor at the Grosvenor Gallery, Hemy was notably influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and by the artist James McNeill Whistler.
- Category:
- Paintings, Prints & Drawings
- Object ID:
- 69.157
- Object name:
- Blackwall
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Hemy, Charles Napier
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- Production date:
- c. 1872
- Material:
oil, canvas
- Measurements/duration:
- H 1219 mm, W 1828 mm (unframed), H 1355 mm, W 1965 mm (framed)
- Part of:
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- On display:
- London Museum Docklands: First Port of Empire Gallery
- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
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