In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 154 × 216 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D18155
Turner Bequest CCVIII V
Display caption
Turner made this watercolour, and that of Newcastle, for his engraved series Rivers of England. In them he celebrates the Tyne and its role in trading and shipping the coal that fuelled Britain’s steam age. Newcastle was the ‘great emporium of the coal trade’. At Shields, ‘keelmen’ worked all hours loading colliers with coal delivered on elevated iron rails known as ‘hurries’. In fact, as their work became mechanised, keelmen became victims of British technological progress.
Gallery label, November 2022
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