
In Tate Britain
- Artist
- Walter Greaves 1846–1930
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 914 × 1397 mm
frame: 1172 × 1660 × 113 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1922
- Reference
- N03643
Display caption
Walter Greaves was the son of a Thames boatman and a self-taught painter. A dense crowd is assembled on Hammersmith suspension bridge to watch the annual university boat race. There were fears that the bridge was not strong enough to support the weight of heavy traffic when around 12,000 people gathered there for the event in 1870. Greaves captures the diversity of London at this time, although this work, painted in his early style, simplifies and caricatures the individuals in the crowd.
Gallery label, May 2023
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