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View of Birmingham published 1853

BordesleyExile

BordesleyExile

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This view of Birmingham is from a fresh perspective and includes both city centre churches and nearby chimneys. Oddly, the terrain looks rather flat.
 

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BordesleyExile said:
This view of Birmingham is from a fresh perspective and includes both city centre churches and nearby chimneys. Oddly, the terrain looks rather flat.
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Lovely Drawing. It reminded me of one from the 1770's showing a view towards Wombourne near Wolverhampton. We went to the probable site of the view, and found that a little "artistic licence" had used.

However it is a great recording of the past.

All the best Peter
 
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Yes, its strange that some artists were still seeking to romanticize. Peter. With so many chimneys in view here it was not going to be effective.
 
I was once commissioned to do 2 industrial scenes for the Boardroom of a firm called Concorde Engineering and one was of a Foundry in Tipton along side a canal with the chimney and smoke reflecting in the still water of the canal and the term Romantic was the very word used by the buyer, still he must have been happy with it for some years later he contacted me to do a painting of Allesley Church near Coventry apparently his daughter was the Sunday School teacher there. The other was of a coal mine with the miners coming off shift, which I also thought was a romantic subject, no doubt the miners thought otherwise. Eric
 
Always pleased to read your input, Eric. So romanticism lived on! I was very dissapointed that Newton, whose painting Viv posted on the Easy Row / Broad St thread, was so fond of water scenes but did not paint pictures of our canals. Or if he did, I cannot find any.
 
Well I most admit that I had never heard of Algernon Newton RA (1880-1968), but I have just browsed some his work and am greatly impressed, my kind of painting, but like you say no canal scenes (a favourite subject of mine) what a pity. Eric
 
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