Shipping on the Clyde is an oil on millboard cityscape painting by the British artist John Atkinson Grimshaw, from 1881. It is in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, in Madrid.Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
History and description The painting features a street scene by the River Clyde in Glasgow illuminated by moonlight.Valance p.4 Some lighting comes from the shop windows and a small fire at which two dockworkers are warming themselves. Atkinson Grimshaw was known for nocturnal views of the industrial port cities of the Victorian era and this is a variation on the model.Robertson p.73
References
Bibliography Happer, Richard & Stewart, Mark. River Clyde: From Source to Sea. Amberley Publishing, 2014. Robertson, Alexander. Atkinson Grimshaw. Phaidon Press, 1996. Valance, Hélène. Nocturne: Night in American Art, 1890-1917. Yale University Press, 2018.