Durham Castle and Framwell Gate Bridge
Durham Castle and Framwell Gate Bridge
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THOMAS HEARNE
Brinkworth 1744-1817 London
Durham Castle and Framwell Gate Bridge
Grey washes over pencil on laid paper
182 x 248 mm., 7 x 9 ¾ in.
Provenance:
With Michael Spratt, Guildford;
With the English Gallery, Cambridge;
Private Collection until 2014
Framwell Gate Bridge is a two arch pedestrian bridge over the Wear built in the fifteenth century.
Views of Durham by Hearne are in the British Museum, Ashmolean Museum, V & A Museum, Norwich Castle Museum and Leeds City Art Gallery (for three of them, see David Morris, Thomas Hearne and his Landscape, 1989, pls. 61-63, pp. 80-81).