Newcastle is a city of change and transformation whose inhabitants have one eye on engineered futures, while another eye looks at the ruins of the past (the train tracks cutting through the grounds of the castle symbolise this point). As historians we are excited to be based in the city and we hope you are too. Although it is still surrounded by parts of the old Roman wall, Newcastle has long expanded past its traditional core hugging the River Tyne at the base of the Castle. It is no surprise then that Newcastle - its places and people - have featured prominently in art. This digital exhibition offers a taster of the kind of visual sources available to students and some suggested walks in the city.
View of Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead c.1970
Derek Albert Hedgecock (1932–1999)
Oil on board
H 80 x W 121 cm
Shipley Art Gallery
Excavations for the High Level Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne c.1846
Thomas Miles Richardson I (1784–1848)
Oil on canvas
H 96.7 x W 83.2 cm
Laing Art Gallery
St Nicholas Street, Newcastle upon Tyne 1902
Louis Hubbard Grimshaw (1870–1944)
Oil on board
H 29.1 x W 42.6 cm
Laing Art Gallery
The Black Gate, Newcastle Upon Tyne
George Balmer (1805–1846) (attributed to)
Oil on canvas
H 75 x W 64 cm
Lady Lever Art Gallery
A Meeting of the Newcastle Phrenological Society 1835
British (English) School
Oil on panel
H 22 x W 27.5 cm
National Trust, Cragside
Newgate, Newcastle upon Tyne c.1820
James Russell Ryott (c.1788–1851)
Oil on board
H 33.7 x W 46.5 cm
Laing Art Gallery
New Bridge over Pandon Dene, Newcastle upon Tyne c.1812
unknown artist
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 91.6 cm
Laing Art Gallery
The Banquet Given on the Occasion of the Opening of the Grainger Market, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1835 c.1835
Henry Perlee Parker (1795–1873)
Oil on canvas
H 96 x W 159.8 cm
Laing Art Gallery
The Great Fire of Newcastle upon Tyne 19th C
unknown artist
Oil on mother-of-pearl & glass
H 16.4 x W 23.6 cm
Laing Art Gallery
Whalers Entering the Tyne 1830
John Wilson Carmichael (1799–1868)
Oil on canvas
H 74.5 x W 130.5 cm
Torre Abbey Museum
The Tyne Bridge and All Saints Church, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear 1979
Richard Flynn
Oil on canvas
H 67 x W 82 cm
Newcastle City Council
The Old Fish Market, Sandhill, Newcastle upon Tyne c.1826–1830
Henry Perlee Parker (1795–1873)
Oil on canvas
H 115 x W 152.1 cm
Laing Art Gallery
