Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Thomas Luny, 1759–1837, British
Title:: The Port of London
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 3/4 x 33 7/8 inches (55.2 x 86 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:: Signed and dated in black paint, lower left: "Luny | 1798."
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1976.7.130
Classification:: Paintings
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:: port | costume | boats | ships | merchantmen | barrels | cityscape | rowboats | sailboats | cutters (sailing vessels) | sloops (sailing vessels) | full-rigged ships | men | river | bridge (built work) | buildings | monument | dome | masts | steeples
Associated Places:: England | United Kingdom | Europe | London | Thames
Currently On View:: Not on view
Publications:: Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 152-153, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)
Markman Ellis, River and Labour in Samuel Scott's Thames Views in the Mid-Eighteenth Century, London Journal, vol. 37, November 2012, p. 157, fig. 2, Available online : ORBIS (in Taylor $ Francis Online)
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:350