Paintings of Leeds

[Leeds Hippo]

Leeds Hippo wrote: A drawing rather than a paintingView of Leeds from (or near) the Halifax New Road 1846 - Henry BurnsQuestion is - where is he standing - The Halifax New Road is the Whitehall road. This would have been a toll road at that time but I can't place where he is stood - was a south wind blowing since the road runs east to west. Is the road the one in the foreground with the horse and coach. The Whitehall road is fairly level until it gets to Ringways Assuming it's mid day the shadows of the figures suggest we are looking east from high ground Wonder if the row of houses to the left is Copley Hill - there is a row of houses on the 1831 map (Copley hilll was called Holbeck Lane on the map) - all this is before the railways. If this was the case the artist would be stood where Wortley recreation ground is looking towards Holbeck. (I could of course be completely wrong) Update - I wonder if this is a black and white photo of a coloured painting and if so where is the original? Update - I've seen another map in the Museum that called the flat area the "Waterloo Plains" though I don't think the name stuck.Update - added a better image I found in a Thoresby Publication - their notes support view is taken from near CopleyRef: Bonser & Nichols “Printed Maps and Plans of Leeds 1711-1900”,         From the tithe map the artist appears to be at the marked positionNote there is a path just to the right of the woman leading down to the Whitehall road. Need to ignore the proposed path of the railway that eventually cuts the row of houses on Copley Hill in half

[Leeds Hippo]

Drawing of the first Monk Bridge 1827 (From Leodis)

[Chrism]

Kirkstall Abbey, by Thomas Girtin. 1801Current location: Victoria and Albert Museum.Dimensions: 30.5 × 52 cm    

[Chrism]

Leeds Hippo wrote: Valley of the Aire, Armley Pastures and Kirkstall - George Alexander 1853. Think the house is Gotts ParkIt's that Armley Mills beside the Canal?     I doubt it's Armley Mills. It's too close to Armley House (The correct name for it). The bridge over the canal at the bottom of Redcoat Lane used to be a toll bridge so I suspect the building is the toll-house.

[shutthatdoor]

[quotenick="Leeds Hippo"]Valley of the Aire, Armley Pastures and Kirkstall - George Alexander 1853. Think the house is Gotts ParkIt's that Armley Mills beside the Canal?This is a view I know well and love. Somewhere around where the cows are stood, there was a cave. It looked man-made, two upright sandstone slabs, topped by a horizontal sandstone slab. Didn't go back very far, a few ft maybe. Looked like a sort of neolithic folly. Then sometime in the late seventies/early eighties, the golf course was extended and hundreds of tons of demolition rubble was dumped to form a platform over looking the canal. You can still see the tangle of concrete pillars and their internal reinforcement bars sticking out of the hillside. Go down Redcote Lane from Stanningley Road, before you cross the bridge at the bottom, turn right. About 30 to 40 feet along on the right you should be able to see the skeletal remains of all the trucked in rubble that makes up that side if the hill.

[Loiner1960]

Don't know if this artist has been mentioned before.http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetail ... 2D1AFFSome paintings of Leeds although based in London.

[cnosni]

Loiner1960 wrote: Don't know if this artist has been mentioned before.http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetail ... 2D1AFFSome paintings of Leeds although based in London. Never seen that before.

[Cardiarms]

Like that

[dogduke]

Cardiarms wrote: Like that Me too!!

[Leeds Hippo]

Loiner1960 wrote: Don't know if this artist has been mentioned before.http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetail ... 2D1AFFSome paintings of Leeds although based in London. Thanks Loiner1960 - new one to me - another by the same artist of YeadonYeadon Church, near Leeds, 1924, Ginner, Charles (1878-1952) / Mayor Gallery, London, UK / The Bridgeman Art Library