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Description: | Many ships were wrecked trying to enter Sunderland Harbour during storms before the North Pier was extended in 1841. This dramatic picture is an imaginary view of how a wreck at the harbour's entrance might have appeared in about 1830-40. This was around sixty or seventy years before the picture was painted. On the South Pier on the left is the 18th century timber Tide Light, which was replaced in 1856. Behind the wreck is the North Pier Lighthouse, built in 1802. This is one of many views of Sunderland Harbour painted by the North East artist Stuart Bell. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | artists oil paintings living in the North East transport events art North East artists Sunderland | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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