- Wikidata identifier:
- Q1800739
- Part of:
- North East Museums
- Instance of:
- art museum; local authority museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 381
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q1800739/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Fine Art
The collection here includes British oil painting, watercolours, ceramics, silver, glassware, costume, textiles and a small amount of ethnographic material. Generally the fine art collection of 24,250 items consists of oil paintings, drawings, watercolours, prints and sculpture ranging from the 15th century to the present. It is strong in British paintings from 1800 -1950 and includes works by Holman Hunt, Burne-Jones and Stanley Spencer including ‘Isabella and the Pot of Basil” by William Holman Hunt,’ Laus Veneris’ by Edward Coley Burne Jones , ‘The Breton Shepherdess’ by Paul Gauguin ,’ The Lovers’ by Stanley Spencer and works by the local John Martin. Early 20th century artists include Auerbach, Nicholson, Hitchens, Bomberg and Moore.. There is also an important collection of 16th and 17th century Dutch and Flemish works and other continental artists such as Tintoretto. There is an extensive print collection including Thomas Bewick and related material.
Decorative Art
The decorative art collection of 11,500 items is displayed here and at the Shipley Art Gallery and Sunderland’s Museum and Winter Garden and consisits of glass, silver and ceramics of the 18th – 20th centuries focusing on pieces made in the North East of England. Particular products are the 18th century Bielby Glass, 1824 Londonderry glass service and the pottery produced on Tyneside and Wearside and the excellent collection of Newcastle silver.
Ancient Egyptian Collection
The museum holds 60 ancient Egyptian objects. Classes of objects represented in the collection include: toilet articles; faience figures; jewellery; metal figures; pottery; scarabs/sealings; shabtis; stone vessels; tools. Objects are known to have come from the following locations in Egypt (with the name of the excavator/sponsor and year of excavation given where possible): Abu Simbel; Abydos (possibly Peet and Naville – Egypt Exploration Fund, 1909-10).
Subjects
Antiquities; Ancient civilizations; Antiquity; Archaeological sites; Archaeological objects; Egyptology; Archaeological excavations
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC