Newcastle at Night from the Rabbit Banks, Gateshead

1864

Not on view

This moody evening view across the Tyne responds to an industrial city northeast of London. St. Nicholas Cathedral emerges from the haze at left as flames from factory chimneys create multiple points of light. Boyce joined London's Old Water-Colour Society, formally the Society of Painters in Water-Colours, in 1865 and there showed a variation of this subject, attracting the attention of the Athenaeum. A reviewer noted that, "Among the recently elected members of this Society, by far the most original artist in landscape is Mr. Boyce, who treats with such perfect solemnity, beauty, richness and truth of colouring, some of the most commonplace themes . . . a distant view of a manufacturing town interests us in its million lives and fortunes; its . . . glowing sky looks full of prophecy."

Artwork Details

Title: Newcastle at Night from the Rabbit Banks, Gateshead
Artist: George Price Boyce (British, London 1826–1897 London)
Date: 1864
Medium: Watercolor heightened with gouache (bodycolor) and reductive techniques
Dimensions: Sheet: 4 in. × 8 3/16 in. (10.1 × 20.8 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Ian Woodner Family Collection Fund, 2019
Object Number: 2019.98
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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