Shakespeare Cliff, Dover, 1849

Shakespeare Cliff, Dover, 1849 is an 1862 landscape painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield. It depicts a view of Shakespeare Cliff near Dover on the coast of Kent. It depicts a scene of how the coast looked thirteen years earlier and portrays construction underway on the Admiralty Pier. Dominating the background is the cliff, named after a passage from Shakespeare's King Lear. At the base are the two tunnels that carry the railway of the recently opened South Eastern Main Line. It has been described as celebrating the advance of industrial progress during the Victorian era, particularly significant in Dover with its close connection with Continental Europe.

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