473929 Lilburn Tower, Northumberland (b/c, pencil & w/c on paper) by Dobson, John (1787-1865); 83.3x55.5 cm; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK; (add.info.: Dobson was successful as a designer of country houses and public buildings. Northumberland landowners, newly enriched by coal and manufacturing industry, commissioned elegant new mansions in Elizabethan, Gothic and classical styles. This is one of the first of his w/cs in which Dobson empoyed J.W. Carmichael to work up his finely detailed drawings into beautiful w/cs for public exhibition. ); 穢 Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums; British, out of copyright.