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A rare image of Greenwich Wharves in the 1930s. The view looks westwards from the east side of the Greenwich Peninsula towards the old gas works, now the site of the Dome. The scene is is eerily devoid of figures and nature, both highly atmospheric and sterile. Yet at the same time it provides a detailed visual record of the industrial Greenwich Landscape before its ultimate decline. Cranes cut the sky at different degrees, chimneys provide the verticals. There is great subtlety of composition graduations from grey deepening to black in a study that does not shy away from showing the industrial landscape. The artist took immense trouble over the paintings. There are at least six preparatory studies for this one, in a combination of pencil, pen, ink, wash and chalk, some of them squared.
The finished painting dates from about 1938 and is from Sir Brinsley Ford's collection together with the preliminary studies. It is also one of a pair with ‘Hollick’s Wharf’, 1934.
Title
A Jetty at Greenwich
Date
probably 1938
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 33.2 x W 62.4 cm
Accession number
ZBA1674
Work type
Painting
National Maritime Museum
Romney Road, Greenwich, London, Greater London SE10 9NF England
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