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Description: | The scene captured by Carmichael is a ceremony held on the River Tyne until about 1900. The origins of this old public holiday are not entirely clear, but it is thought to have originated as an imitation of a similar ceremony in Venice. This Italian ceremony was adapted by the Lord Mayor and Guilds of Newcastle as an expression of civic pride, recognising the river's importance in local commerce. The ceremony took the form of a waterborne procession in grand, elabourately carved and decorated barges from Newcastle Quayside to the mouth of the Tyne and back again. This was accompanied by much music and celebration along the route. This particular watercolour is the most important of six surviving original drawings for a series of thirty-three engravings entitled Views on the Tyne. The six were some of Carmichael's finest small-scale works. They originally belonged to Major Anderson of Anderson Place in Newcastle who was an important local patron of the arts, and who died in 1831. | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Temporal: | Production date: unknown | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Creator: | John Wilson Carmichael | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/artonline/se... | Go to resource |
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