Idea of North Candle A toy train belonging to

A toy train belonging to the son of one of Lowry’s friends reportedly inspired the locomotive depicted here

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Yellow Ochre

depicted in Lowry’s signature style

and which we can also adopt - no matter what we do

Idea of North Candle A toy train belonging toAs with the compass needle, so people have always been most powerfully attracted northwards; everyone carries within them their own concept of north. "The Idea of North" is a study, ranging widely in time and place, of some of the ways in which these ideas have found expression. Peter Davidson explores the topography of north as represented in images and literature, taking in Netherlandic winter paintings of the Renaissance, German Romantic