# A Barge in a Norfolk Landscape [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [WEBB, James]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 73 x 102 cm ## Commentary 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'. ## Related artworks - [A Quiet Evening]() - [Cologne Cathedral]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()