Swan Stairs, London Bridge by George Johann Scharf

Watercolour of passengers on a wooden pier stairway beside a steamboat with a gilded figurehead, 1841.

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A watercolour interior of a timber pier with passengers descending a wooden staircase and gathering on the landing beside the open side of a steamboat with a gilded figurehead. Men in top hats and women in bonnets wait among luggage and coiled rope, while a figure in a red cap stands on the ship's deck. The work is attributed to George Johann Scharf, dated 1841, and is titled Swan Stairs, London Bridge.

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Date

1841

Medium

Museum

Wikimedia Commons

License

Public domain

Themes

Cityscapes, Birds