A Thames Wharf

A Thames Wharf
Artist	Samuel Scott
Year	c. 1757
Type	Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions	160 cm× 137.1 cm(63 in× 54.0 in)
Location	Victoria and Albert Museum, London

A Thames Wharf is an oil on canvas landscape painting by the British artist Samuel Scott, from c. 1757. ^{[1] [2]} It depicts a wharf on the River Thames in London, owned by the East India Company. ^[3] It is sometimes identified as the Old East India Wharf. ^[4] It features a treadwheel crane, a common feature on the London riverside of the time. ^[5] Scott was originally a marine painter but switched to painting views of London.

Today it is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, having been acquired in 1865. ^[6]

References

1. Harris & Johnson p.155
2. Roe p.269
3. Ellis, Coulton & Mauge p.118
4. Victoria and Albert Museum
5. Spence p.108
6. Victoria and Albert Museum

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• Harris, Lynn Brenda & Johnson, Valerie Ann (ed.) Excavating the Histories of Slave-Trade and Pirate Ships: Property, Plunder and Loss. Springer Nature, 2022.
• Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard & Mauger, Matthew. Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World. Reaktion Books, 2015.
• Roe, Sonia. Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Public Catalogue Foundation, 2008.
• Spence, Craig. Accidents and Violent Death in Early Modern London, 1650-1750. Boydell & Brewer, 2016.