3-052-566 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"Passage Boat on the Scheldt", from the picture by C. Stanfield, R.A., in the Sheepshanks Collection, 1880. Engraving of a painting. 'In this picture, by the late Mr. Clarkson Stanfield, R.A., which is in the National Collection at South Kensington, the artist has exerted his power of combining with the natural aspects of the waters and the atmosphere a vivid presentment of subjects of human and social interest. There is nothing very picturesque in the shores of the great estuary or inlet that forms the aquatic gate of entrance to the Netherlands...The particular features to be noticed and admired in Mr. Stanfield's picture will not fail of due appreciation by the cultivated taste of our readers. They will observe, without needing our help, the grandeur of its cloud forms and movements, the breadth of its atmosphere, and the gently lifting surface of its water; as well as the quaintness of the vessels, which must at once be recognised by every one who has made the trip to Antwerp, and the figures of men and women in the costume of their class, quietly voyaging to a not distant haven'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.