An architectural drawing of the large railway bridge over the river Wear at Sunderland, Durham

An early iron bridge opened in 1796. Tall ships on river. BLORE DRAWINGS: architectural and topographical drawings by Edward Blore Author: Surtees / Illustrator: Blore, Edward England 1811 Language: English Source/Shelfmark: Add. 42016 No.13 42000-42047. BLORE DRAWINGS: architectural and topographical drawings by Edward Blore (1787-1879), architect and antiquary, unsigned and un- dated (with a very few exceptions), but in many cases made for, or used in, his father's (Thomas Blore's) History of Rutland, i, part ii, 1811; for Surtees's History and Antiquities of Durham, 1816-1840; for his own Monumental Remains of Noble and Eminent Persons, 1826; for Sir Walter Scott's The Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland, 1826; and for other similar publications. Some of the drawings have notes or measurements in Blore's hand.