Yarmouth Quay

This painting was probably exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1823. Full of descriptive detail, it shows busy commercial activities taking place on Great Yarmouth's quayside. In the centre is a row cart, or 'troll', specially designed to carry goods along the narrow Yarmouth rows. Vincent has also included men begging in front of the houses belonging to wealthy merchants on the right. This is an ironic touch as contemporary guidebooks claimed that beggars were nowhere to be seen in the town.