Liverpool Quay by Moonlight
Liverpool Quay by Moonlight is an 1887 oil painting by the British artist John Atkinson Grimshaw. It is a cityscape that features an evening view of the city waterfront of Liverpool, then in Lancashire. An omnibus with a rear green light has stopped on the damp cobbles to pick up a woman in front of illuminated shop windows. Grimshaw became renowned for his use of light in his depictions of city scenes, inspired initially by the Pre-Raphaelitess and later by James McNeill Whistler. Today the painting is in the collection of the Tate Britain in London, having been purchased in 1967.