Description: The view is confusing and it is difficult to work out the location and direction of the view. At the time of this picture Castle Boulevard did not exist as a road until c 1890. Prior to this date it was a semi-rural lane leading to Lenton. The scene is likely to be looking west with the Nottingham Canal on the right, the towpath in the middle and the River Leen (or Tinkers Leen as this part was called) on the left. The buildings seen high up on the right indicate that this is looking west, as there is no high ground on the left at this point. The area was called King's Meadows (now replaced by the Castle Meadows Retail Park). The artist was Thomas Cooper Moore (1827 - 1901), who was a nineteenth century painter, watercolourist and pen and ink artist who first trained as an architect before dedicating himself to art. He was mainly self taught in this field but later started the first sketching class in Nottingham and was a founder of the Nottingham Society of artists. Most of Moore's landscapes were produced in or around the Nottingham area. He seems to have particuarly liked drawing and painting pub and inns as well as scenes by the local rivers and canals. During this time and later in the nineteenth century his art was exhibited in Sheffield, Nottingham, Birmingham and London. T. C. Moore was also the father and teacher of Claude T. S. Moore (1853-1901), who became very well known for his paintings and watercolours of the Thames and other river views. A number of Thomas Cooper Moore's drawings and watercolours are housed in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. There are many more of his sketches to be seen on this web-site.