Inside the High Bridge, King's Lynn

Henry Baines (1823 - 1894)

Lynn Museum

circa 1855

This painting shows a view of the High Bridge over the Purfleet, King's Lynn, looking west towards the Great Ouse River, into which the Purfleet drains. Several inhabitants can be seen in the painting, looking out of their dwelling on either side of the filthy Purfleet, which was used both as an open sewer and a source of drinking and washing water.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 33.5 x 30.5cm
• Art Fund Grant: £2250 ( Total: £3,750)
• ArtFunded in: 2004
• Vendor: Graham R Barker

Provenance

H.M.J Burke; Graham R. Barker.

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