Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-290
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 Tyne combines both North and South Tyne on its journey from both Kielder Water and Cumbria before it meets the North Sea at the Port of Tyne in Tyne and Wear. In contrast to Slocombe’s other prints in this series here he depicts a much more industrial setting more akin to Whistler’s depictions of the River Thames. |
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