WEBB, James
(b. ca. 1825, Chelsea, d. 1895, London)

A Barge in a Norfolk Landscape

1859
Oil on canvas, 73 x 102 cm
Private collection

The painting shows a barge lying moored alongside a reedy bank on the Norfolk Broads. In the nineteenth century, the Broads served as major transport routes, and the flat-bottomed barges that traversed them were specially designed to navigate shallow waterways.

The painting is signed and dated lower left: 'James Webb 59'.




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