County Durham Gallery

Durham Cathedral door knocker K011465

DURHAM CATHEDRAL, County Durham. Cathedral Sanctuary knocker in the shape of a mask

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Cathedral, Door, Entrance, Medieval, Religion

Map of the City of Durham, England Victorian Engraving, 1840

Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraving of Map of the City of Durham, England Victorian Engraving, 1840. Source: Original edition from my own archives. Copyright has expired on this artwork. Digitally restored

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1800s, 19th Century, 19th Century Style, 657097184, Antique, Archival, Art, Art Product, British Culture, Cartography, Chart, City, County Durham, Design, Diagram, Direction, Drawing Art Product, England, Engraving, Etching, Famous Place, Graph, Great Britain, History, Horizontal, Illustration, Map, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Non Us Location, Old, Plan, Print, Residential District, River, River Wear, Road, Street, Sunderland, Thoroughfare, Tourism, Town, Travel, Uk, Usa, Victorian Style, Village

Consett Steel Works FF98_00247

Consett Steel Works, County Durham, 1945-80. Eric de Mare (1910-2002) cellulose acetate negative. Steel-making dominated Consett for 140 years from 1840, and the steelworks, employing 6, 000 workers in the 1960s, loomed over rows of terraced houses. Eric de Mare's elevated view of Consett Steel Works captures their gargantuan scale, echoing the work of pre-war photographers such as Albert Renger-Patzsch in Germany and Charles Sheeler in the United States who emphasised the strong forms of industrial structures. De Mare used colour photography here, recognising that this required a ?'different vision from black-and-white film. The massive tube in the foreground reflects his view that a close shot filling or almost filling? the frame will usually be more effective and more interesting

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