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Description: | A large ship is being loaded with coal from one of two shutes from staiths (loading jetties) built out into the River Tyne. The coal was transported to the staiths in chaldrons (coal wagons) running on rails. Coal was Newcastle's major export in the late 18th century. This tiny watercolour is one of several small sketchy scenes in greyish tones of ships on the Tyne that Luke Clennell painted. Clennell was one of the apprentices of the North East artist and wood-engraver Thomas Bewick. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | work watercolours buildings and views art made in the North East Newcastle coal mining artists living in the North East other North East transport North East artists industry | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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