Whitfield Tip, N. Staffordshire
Date1955
MediumEtching and mezzotint
DimensionsObject/Work: 184 x 270 mm
ClassificationsArtworks/Commemorations/Photographs
Terms
Object numberPT0190
DescriptionSigned in pencil L. G. Brammer. Inscribed with title. Numbered 26. This industrial scene is typical of Brammer's work, capturing the bleak, heavily industrialised landscapes of the Potteries. Chatterley Whitfield was a large colliery in Staffordshire and had a tremedous impact in shaping the local landscape. In Brammer's scene here we are able to identify terraced housing and people going about their daily lives in the shadow of the colliery's tip - a dark, mountain-like and imposing structure that looms over them. Such powerful images provide us with a very real and personal vision into a relatively recent industrial past.
(Benjamin Angwin - August 2014)
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Sir Frank Short
