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-Raphaelites and later by James McNeill Whistler. Today the painting is in the collection of the Tate Britain in London, having been purchased in 1967.
References
Bibliography Hollander, Anne. Moving Pictures. Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Robertson, Alexander. Atkinson Grimshaw. Phaidon Press, 1996.


