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Port Scene

Eugène Isabey (1803–1886)

National Maritime Museum

Port Scene

Photo credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

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port

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maritime facility where ships may dock to load and discharge passengers and cargo

boat

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smaller watercraft

ship

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large buoyant watercraft

harbor

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sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be docked

sailing ship

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large wind-powered water vessel

navigation

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process of monitoring and directing the movement of a person, craft or vehicle from one place to another

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person who navigates water-borne vessels or assists in doing so

refurbishing

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restoration of damaged or used goods to original (or better) working order and appearance

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place where ships are repaired and built

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dry dock

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A narrow basin that can be sealed and pumped dry to allow work on a vessel

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human-made structure involved in the handling of boats or ships

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An estuarial French port scene at low tide, possibly at Honfleur in Normandy, or a similar location, with two fishing boats lying dried out on the shore in the foreground. Several men can be seen working on the boat with red sails. Sharply gabled houses rise up to the right looking out across the river or inlet, which is spanned by a stone bridge leading up and left out of the frame in the middle distance. This implies that the viewer has his back to the sea and that the houses face a similar scene on the opposite side of the bridge. Steps descend to the shore at the junction of the bridge and the quay wall, centre right, with shops just visible in the ground floors of the houses behind. The artist was a well known French genre painter, who in 1820 travelled first to Normandy and then to Britain.

National Maritime Museum

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Title

Port Scene

Date

c.1830

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 62.5 x W 50.5 cm

Accession number

BHC2368

Work type

Painting

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Romney Road, Greenwich, London, Greater London SE10 9NF England

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Artist or maker

Eugène Isabey

1803–1886

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