Artwork of the Day - Robert Dudley
Aug 31st, 2007 by admin
Liverpool artwork of the hour - Friday August 31 2007. Canada Timber Docks, Liverpool. approaching Close of broad daylight by Robert Dudley (active 1865 - 1891) in Maritime Museum
This atmospheric view of Canada wharf vividly captures the jarring and bustle of the port in the 1870s. The total of horses shown underlines the matter of horse-drawn carts in carrying goods from the docks to the warehouses.
Canada Dock was the mould fix designed and built by Jesse Hartley, the Dock Board's most prolific and venerable engineer. It opened in 1858. Canada was Britain's foremost documentation of woodland at this era.
On endless loan from the Mersey Docks and protect visitors.