Title
View of Manchester from Kersal Moor c.1834.
Reference
YA1983.10/5
Production date
1824 - 1844
Creator
- Pickering, GeorgeBiographyBiography
British landscape painter, born in Yorkshire in 1794. Pickering exhibited Between 1815 and 1818 he exhibited eleven landscapes at the Society of Painters in Water Colours (the Old Watercolour Society) between 1815 and 1818, and four landscapes at the Society of British Artists galleries in Suffolk Street, London, in 1827–8.
In 1836 he had a studio at 53 Bold Street, Liverpool. He later moved to Grange Mount, Birkenhead, where he died on 8 March 1857.
- Higham, ThomasBiographyBiography
British landscape engraver and draughtsman, 1797-1844
Scope and Content
Panoramic view of Manchester from Kersal Moor by G. Pickering, engraved by T. Higham.
Level of description
ITEM
Repository name
Science and Industry Museum
Associated people and organisations
- Higham, ThomasBiographyBiography
British landscape engraver and draughtsman, 1797-1844
- Pickering, GeorgeBiographyBiography
British landscape painter, born in Yorkshire in 1794. Pickering exhibited Between 1815 and 1818 he exhibited eleven landscapes at the Society of Painters in Water Colours (the Old Watercolour Society) between 1815 and 1818, and four landscapes at the Society of British Artists galleries in Suffolk Street, London, in 1827–8.
In 1836 he had a studio at 53 Bold Street, Liverpool. He later moved to Grange Mount, Birkenhead, where he died on 8 March 1857.
Subject
Conditions governing access
Open access.
Conditions governing Reproduction
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