Butcher Bank in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, in the 1800s, birth-place of poet and doctor of medicine, Mark Akenside (1721 - 1770), who established a medical practice in London and was made physician in ordinary to Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, in 1761. Antique engraving published mid-1800s and later coloured by hand.
Butcher Bank, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Antique engraving which appeared in ‘Curiosities of Great Britain, England & Wales Delineated’, an extensive topographical study by Thomas Dugdale and William Burnett, published in the mid-1800s by L. Tallis, London. The engraving bears the inscription ‘Birth-place of Akenside, Butcher Bank, Newcastle-upon-Tyne’, and below it ‘Northumberland’. The ancient county of Northumberland in northeast England formerly included Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Mark Akenside (1721 - 1770) was a poet and physician, best known for a philosophical essay ‘The Pleasures of Imagination’. In 1747, he established a medical practice on Bloomsbury Square in London and in 1761 was made physician in ordinary to the Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III.
Size: 6500px × 4878px
Location: Butcher Bank, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, UK
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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