Newcastle at Night from the Rabbit Banks, Gateshead

George Price Boyce

1864 · Watercolor heightened with gouache (bodycolor) and reductive techniques · Drawings and Prints

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."

Artist

George Price Boyce

Date

1864

Medium

Watercolor heightened with gouache (bodycolor) and reductive techniques

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Ian Woodner Family Collection Fund, 2019