In the style of William Henry Jackson.
This hand-coloured 8 3/4" x 6 1/2" photochrome comes from the collection of Christopher Cardozo, an American art collector, curator, and more. It depicts South Parks in South Shields, England, from around the turn of the 20th Century.
The photo was printed for the Detroit Publishing Company, an American photographic publishing firm best known for its large assortment of photochrom colour postcards, and can be dated to 1905, as the company changed its name that year from The Detroit Photochrom Company.
The actual image was photographed between 1897 and 1905 and can be dated by the construction and repairs being undertaken on Tynemouth Pier in the top of the photograph after the pier was destroyed in a storm in 1897, but not completed till 1909.
The parks were designed by Matthew Hall in 1886 and an early version of post industrial relandscaping, previously it was a series of ballast tips and spoil heaps.
John Pebbles joined at that date as head gardener and set about recreating the design.
Construction was at the time £20,000 roughly £1,133,197.10 in today's values and opened on the 25th June 1890.
Coming as a set of four in made to measure frames.
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