The Mayfloer Pub Rotherhithe London
by Mackenzie Moulton
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30.000 x 20.000 x 1.000 inches
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Title
The Mayfloer Pub Rotherhithe London
Artist
Mackenzie Moulton
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
This is a painting done in the 1980's of The riverside at Rotherhithe as it would have been in 1932 with lots of barges and boats unloading their cargo into the riverside wharves. Shown is Princess Wharf, Gordens wharf and the Famouse Mayflower Pub. About the pub
It was built on stilts above the Thames marshes. Christopher Jones, captain of the Mayflower, is said to have hired crew here and Captain Cook prepared for his voyage to Australia from here. It enjoyed a large riverside clientele which includedsailors, pirates, smugglers, pressgangs and, in the 18th and 19th centuries, dockers. By the time that Samuel Pepys visited in the 17th century it was already famous. In the same century Judge Jeffreys was said to have watched the pirate hangings on the opposite times of the Thames, victims of his sentences. More surprisingly its riverside views attracted artists including James McNeil Whistler, Augustus John and William Wylie. The original painting is oil on a 30 by 20 inch canvas
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November 15th, 2014
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