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Description: | A steam train is travelling across the massive stone arches of the approach to the High Level Bridge, which opened in 1849. Toft's view contrasts the modern bridge with the ancient buildings of St Nicholas's Cathedral and the houses around it. A heavily loaded wagon and other carriages and carts are travelling over the steep, cobbled road. The smoke from coal fires used to heat houses at this time hangs over the rooftops of the distant buildings. Peter Toft (or Tofft) was a travelling Danish artist who was in Newcastle from 1879 to 1880. He painted many small pictures of the old streets of Newcastle. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | art movement religion artists living in the North East watercolours art North East artists Newcastle people | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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