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Description: | This print of Newcastle was made from a sketch drawn by the landscape painter Thomas Girtin during his first tour of the North of England, in 1766. Newcastle had started to expand inland from the River Tyne from the 1760s onwards. Shortly afterwards, demolition began of much of the medieval walls of the southern part of the town. The speed with which both Gateshead and Newcastle expanded in the early 19th century can be seen by comparing this scene with the view from a similar spot by J M W Turner, published in 1823. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | artists buildings and views art Newcastle | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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