View of the Port and Town of Newcastle Upon Tyne, from the Rope Walk, Gateshead

by Thomas Miles Richardson, Sr., Robert Havell

$500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Thomas M. Richardson was a Newcastle-based artist who began his career as an engraver of local views. From 1818 he exhibited paintings in several places in London including the Royal Academy. Views of his native city and its environs were a staple of his output. In this view, we can identify several buildings which still stand: the neoclassical Moot Hall with its porticoed entrance, and the Castle Keep behind it. Toward the center of the composition, the neo-Gothic spire of St. Nicholas'

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