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Description: | A tall coal ship is shown about to pass under the cast-iron bridge across the River Wear at Sunderland (built 1793-96). It was paid for by Rowland Burdon, MP, of Castle Eden in County Durham. Rowland Burdon was also responsible for the idea behind the design. Before this, ferries were used to cross the river. This view was engraved on wood by Abraham Hunter from a drawing by Robert Johnson. Johnson and Hunter had both been pupils of the wood-engraver Thomas Bewick in Newcastle. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | invention and innovation living in the North East inventors and innovators transport buildings and views art designers made in the North East Sunderland | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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