Description:
Showing the original Talbot Inn to the left which was demolished and a new Talbot that opened in 1876, with the facade that can be seen today. It was sold at auction in 1929 to Yates' Wine Lodge.
The building to the right of the Talbot, J Page's haberdashery shop and Gibson's Printers and Cranes would soon be demolished c 1865 for the widening of Sheep Lane (named after the flocks of sheep which drovers brought down to the cattle market which was once held on the Market Square). After widening, Sheep Lane was re-named Market Street. Sheep Lane is the narrow alley up the side of Fluck's shop.
See NTGM008880 for photograph from c 1860.
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 particularly 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.