Wood engraving on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-william-north-403" aria-label="More by John William North" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">John William North</a>
Vision a City Tree engraved by Dalziel Brothers
Presented by Gilbert Dalziel 1924
adults
animals: mammals
architecture
farmland
hill
horse
landscape
man
people
ram
riding
society
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
transport: land
tree
woman
wooded
<p>North specialised in landscape illustrations, as this design for Robert Buchanans’s Wayside Posies demonstrates. The image is dominated by a large tree which rises above the steep valley. A young boy on horseback rides down the hill, glancing over his shoulder at a shepherd who is trying to keep his flock together.</p><p>The poem is narrated by a city tree, which reminisces about country life:</p><p>The city roars around my feet</p><p>In squares, and lanes, and alleys,</p><p>On every side my trunk – a street –</p><p>So different from the valleys</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2008</em></p>
paper print wood engraving
9 August 2004 – 8 August 2005
2005-08-08
1 March 2004
2004-03-01
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2004-08-09
19th Century Illustration
Collection based display
Vision of a City Tree, engraved by the Dalziel Brothers
image: 162 × 127 mm
Presented by Gilbert Dalziel 1924
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<span class="text15">North specialised in <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> illustrations,</span><span class="text7"> as this design for Robert Buchanans’s </span><span class="tItalic">Wayside Posies</span><span class="text7"> demonstrates.      The image is dominated by a large tree which rises above the steep valley.      A young boy on horseback rides down the hill, glancing over his shoulder at      a shepherd who is trying to keep his flock together. </span>
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<span class="text7">The poem is narrated by a city tree, which reminisces      about country life: </span>
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<span class="tItalic">The city roars around my feet </span>
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<span class="tItalic">In squares, and lanes, and alleys, </span>
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<span class="tItalic">On every side my trunk – a street – 
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<span class="tItalic">So different from the valleys</span><span class="text7">
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adults animals: mammals architecture farmland hill horse landscape man people ram riding society townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features transport: land tree woman wooded