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 × 33 7/8 inches (55.2 × 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 | bridge (built work) | costume | boats | ships | barrels | cityscape | rowboats | merchantmen | sailboats | cutters (sailing vessels) | full-rigged ships | sloops (sailing vessels) | men | buildings | monument | river | dome | masts | steeples
Associated Places:
England | United Kingdom | Europe | London | Thames
Currently On View:
On view
Exhibition History:
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30)
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