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Limehouse Reach

Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

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An evocative Thames scene showing lighters and barges in Limehouse Reach. The paddle steamer in the centre of the painting is towing a barge on the left, a rowing boat and two lighters. The lighter farthest right is laden with barrels and a crew of four are seated in the bow with a fifth man on the tiller in the stern. The smoke from the paddle steamer partly obscures the barge and rowing boat. The buildings of Limehouse are captured in a shaft of sunlight in the distance on the right. The distinctive spire of St Anne's church, one of the three great Hawkesmoor churches in the East End, can be seen with the octagonal water tower just in view to the left. The name Limehouse came from the lime kilns sited there from the fourteenth century onwards.

National Maritime Museum

London

Title

Limehouse Reach

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 81.7 x W 137.3 cm

Accession number

BHC4248

Work type

Painting

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