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Description: | This is a nostalgic late-Victorian view of the destruction of the medieval Tyne Bridge by a flood on Sunday 17th November 1771. The bridge was weakened by the mass of buildings on it. One of these, Mr Patten's shop, was swept away completely, and is shown half-submerged in the river. The picture was based on engravings produced at the time of the flood. It is one of several pictures illustrating Tyneside history painted by Wilson Hepple, who was a Newcastle artist. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | art movement artists oil paintings living in the North East events art Gateshead Newcastle | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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