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Painting, watercolour, Laying the Foundation Stone of the
Lord Street Reading Room, drawn by William Henry Nutter,
Carlisle, Cumberland, 1851.
Crowded street scene; a crowd, predominantly male, stands
gathered around the site of the future reading room; at its
centre the mayor, standing beside the foundation stone,
addresses those assembled; left of composition the railway
station, court houses and castle lie in the distance.
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