An image of this painting is currently only visible on the Art UK web pages of the Public Catalogue Foundation.

A view west towards London at sunset, apparently taken from the west flank of One Tree Hill in Greenwich Park, though the ground has been rather flattened out. The various figures populating the scene include strollers, a picnic party and a blue-coated Greenwich Pensioner sitting on one of several felled tree-trunks in the foreground. The orange sun is finally dipping behind the distant city, where St Paul's stands already in shadow, with a dramatic sweep of cloud above the the domes of Greenwich Hospital at centre right. The Queen's House is just visible to the left of a tree clump at centre. While the overall evening mood is evocatively elegaic, the architectural drawing quality is clumsy by comparison to many others who did the same view (not least Turner). Westall did a similar view as a print, but lacking the staffage and the foreground tree-trunks. The painting has a decorative giltwood frame and is one of various items transferred to the Museum from the Royal Greenwich Observatory (by then at Cambridge) on its closure in 1998. [PvdM 1/18]