Liverpool Quay by Moonlight

Liverpool Quay by Moonlight
ArtistJohn Atkinson Grimshaw
Year1887
TypeOil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions61 cm × 91.4 cm (24 in × 36.0 in)
LocationTate Britain, London

Liverpool Quay by Moonlight is an 1887 oil painting by the British artist John Atkinson Grimshaw.[1] It is a cityscape that features an evening view of the city waterfront of Liverpool, then in Lancashire. An omnibus with a rear green light has stopped on the damp cobbles to pick up a woman in front of illuminated shop windows.[2] Grimshaw became renowned for his use of light in his depictions of city scenes, inspired initially by the Pre-Raphaelitess and later by James McNeill Whistler. Today the painting is in the collection of the Tate Britain in London, having been purchased in 1967.[3]

References

  1. ^ Robertson p.73
  2. ^ Hollander pp. 342–43
  3. ^ "'Liverpool Quay by Moonlight', Atkinson Grimshaw, 1887". Tate. Retrieved 2025-10-20.

Bibliography

  • Hollander, Anne. Moving Pictures. Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
  • Robertson, Alexander. Atkinson Grimshaw. Phaidon Press, 1996.


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