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Tullie House Museum : 1889.8.7
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Painting, watercolour, The Roman Wall, the Bridge of Cilurnam, Chesters fort, Northumberland, by David Mossman, 1880s.
In the centre of the composition a gentleman wearing a top hat stands with his left foot resting on a block of fallen masonry in the gap between two substantial stone constructions. Beyond the metal fence behind him stretches flat parkland with distant hills beyond.
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D Mossman 'Cilurnam' Chesters
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