Shipping on the Clyde is a painting by the English artist John Atkinson Grimshaw, who worked through the second half of the nineteenth century and became known chiefly for atmospheric, low-lit views of British docks and harbours. His paintings of this kind typically show moored and moving vessels under gaslight, mist or moonlight rather than in bright daylight, favouring a quiet, nocturnal mood over dramatic incident. Grimshaw returned to this type of subject repeatedly across ports including Liverpool, Glasgow, London and Leeds, and the River Clyde in Glasgow, one of the busiest shipbuilding waterways in the world during his lifetime, offered exactly the kind of industrial harbour scene that suited his eye. The painting is held today in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.