# Shipping at Anchor in the Thames Estuary, near Wapping

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## Artwork

- Artist: [SCOTT, Samuel](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/scott-samuel-r1ac2c8a65fc347>)
- Date: 1701-1750
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 198 x 211 cm

## Commentary

During the eighteenth century the Thames was the main artery of London, and shipping the principal means of transport. Five hundred feet wider than it is today, its crowded banks, teaming with activity and crammed with every imaginable vessel, would have been a familiar sight and an everyday reality for the city&#39;s inhabitants. This painting captures all the bustle and commotion of river life in every detail.

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- [A Thames Wharf](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/scott-samuel-r1ac2c8a65fc347/a-thames-wharf-reee5da696d45fd>)
- [Departure from England of Francis, Duke of Lorraine, 1731](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/scott-samuel-r1ac2c8a65fc347/departure-from-england-of-francis-duke-of-lorraine-1731-r978acccb3c0c47>)
- [Part of Old Westminster Bridge](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/scott-samuel-r1ac2c8a65fc347/part-of-old-westminster-bridge-r6b137d8f699b67>)
- [Shipping on the Thames off Rotherhithe](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/scott-samuel-r1ac2c8a65fc347/shipping-on-the-thames-off-rotherhithe-r68b53e045f3e1b>)
- [The Building of Westminster Bridge](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/scott-samuel-r1ac2c8a65fc347/the-building-of-westminster-bridge-rc496344b4a878f>)
- [The Thames at Westminster Bridge with Barges](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/scott-samuel-r1ac2c8a65fc347/the-thames-at-westminster-bridge-with-barges-rc6a0186aed6775>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)