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Title
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Thames, below Bridge
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Actual Title
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Blackwall (alt)
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Artist
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C. Napier Hemy
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Type
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Oil on canvas
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Size (HxW, mm)
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1066 x 1828
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Current Exhibition Location
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Museum of London: 69.157
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Lent By
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George Howard, Esq.
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Catalog Number
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28
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Catalog Page
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5
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Catalog Description
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The city rises in a grey mist, behind the shipping. The boats are "outward bound," and beyond / "fair and free / The floodgates are open away to the sea."--(C. Kingsley)
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Curators Notes
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Similar painting: Blackwall, London from the Museum of London, 69.157, 1872
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Alt-Text
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Painting of a busy 19th-century harbor with sailing ships docked along a stone quay, small rowboats and steam-powered vessels on the water, under a cloudy sky. Buildings line the waterfront in the background.
