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Description: | This painting shows four sailing brigs, one being towed by a paddle tug, with a fishing lugger at the entrance to Sunderland Harbour. At this time, a hundred ships or more often entered and left the harbour on one tide. Coal was exported, and sand was brought in as ballast in the ships for use in Sunderland's glass-making industry. Fishwives and other people on the pier watch the ships. Behind them is the timber Tide Light. The bright colours and sharp finish of the picture are characteristic of the work of Mark Thompson, who was a Wearside artist. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | work artists oil paintings living in the North East transport art North East artists Sunderland men women | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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