The Coquet: Warkworth Castle from the Road to Amble

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-288

Artist: Slocombe, Edward

Date: 1880 (Approx.)

State: 1/1

Size: 17.5 x 23.5 cm

Medium: Etching

Details Etching. All the Slocombe’s etchings are brown ink on wove, or possibly India, paper.The mount states all 12 belong to the 12 part series titled Rivers of the East Coast. Only 200 sets were published.Signed artist’s proof; bottom left in graphite ‘Edward Slocombe’.
Description The River Coquet is located in Northumberland and runs from the Cheviot Hills before flowing into the North Sea at Amble. The medieval ruin Warkworth Castle was also painted a number of times by J.M.W. Turner in the late 1790s. The town of Amble lies south east of the Castle.
References
  1. Rodney K. Engen, Dictionary of Victorian Engravers, Print Publishers and Their Works. Cambridge, Chadwyck-Heley, 1979
  2. Kenneth M. Guichard, British Etchers 1850-1940. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1977