A Barge in a Norfolk Landscape
by WEBB, James, Oil on canvas, 73 x 102 cm
The painting shows a barge lying moored alongside a reedy bank on the Norfolk Broads. In the nineteenth century, the Broads served as major transport routes, and the flat-bottomed barges that traversed them were specially designed to navigate shallow waterways.
The painting is signed and dated lower left: ‘James Webb 59’.