Newcastle on Tyne

Location

Country: UK
City: England
Place: Durham, Ministry of Justice

Line and mezzotint engraver Thomas Abiel Prior was born in London. He engraved landscapes after contemporary artists for publishers Henry Fisher and George Virtue. In 1837 he married Emma Sharrow and their son, Thomas William, was born the following year. Prior engraved J. M. W. Turner’s drawing ‘Heidelberg Castle and Town’ under the artist’s supervision (published 1844) and later made further engravings after Turner’s work. He produced 14 plates on steel for the ‘Art Journal’ (1850–71), including plates after works in the Royal Collection. His wife may have died in 1860, when he moved to Calais to be close to their son. Here he taught drawing at local schools, returning annually to assess proofs of his plates. He died in Calais aged 77.

Places

England, Tyne and Wear

Subjects

steam train, railway, train, topography, townscape/cityscape, rainbow, river bank, river, baby, woman, girl, bridge (urban), house, castle, church, cathedral, portico, window, barge/canal boat, paddle steamer, sailboat

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

George Henry Andrews (1816 - 1898)
Thomas Abiel Prior (1809 - 1886)

Title

Newcastle on Tyne

Date

1871

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, January 1973

GAC number

9854