Barges Loading, Liverpool
Date1920
Artist
Rachel Cassels Brown
(Scottish artist, children's illustrator, lithographer and etcher, 1875–1953)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 7 5/16 × 4 7/8 in. (18.6 × 12.4 cm)
sheet: 11 1/2 × 9 in. (29.2 × 22.9 cm)
sheet: 11 1/2 × 9 in. (29.2 × 22.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Robin & Cynthia Fanshawe, 2010
Object number2010-5
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextIn addition to illustrating children’s books, Rachel Brown documented scenes of Liverpool where she spent most of her adult life. Liverpool was an important commercial port during the 19th- and early 20th centuries. Here she depicts cargo being moved from the docks by barge to or from a waiting ship in the harbor.