Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Clarkson Stanfield, 1793–1867, British
Title:: A Thames Barge running downwind off Tilbury Fort
Date:: 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 x 36 1/4 inches (61 x 92.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:: Signed and dated in brown paint, lower right: "CStanfield. RA. 1853." [the "C" and "S" overlap]
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1981.25.599
Classification:: Paintings
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:: riverbank | buildings | river | town | gate | landscape | sailing | sailboats | marine art | fishermen | nets | dock | boats | seamen | rowboats | water | barge | waves (natural events)
Associated Places:: Thames | Europe | Essex | United Kingdom | England | Tilbury
Currently On View:: Not on view
Publications:: Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 212-213, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1067