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Tullie House Museum : 1902.18.34
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Painting, watercolour, Great Salkeld, Pillars, St Cuthbert's Church, Great Salkeld, Cumberland, by William Gershom Collingwood, 1899.
Sketch of three interlaced capitals beside a doorway; that on right is decorated with a bird grasping a fish in its talons above a lamb beside a calf headed serpent. Centre capital has two intertwined snakes above a skull. Left hand capital is honeycombed with hexagonal cells, each containing a skull. The capitals are Norman.
Drawn to illustrate Notes on the Early Sculptured Crosses, Shrines and Monuments in the Present Diocese of Carlisle, by Rev William Slater Calverley, published by T Wilson, Kendal 1899; opposite p.178.
inscription:- signed & inscribed & dated bottom left
W.G. Collingwood Great Salkeld May 1 1899
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wxh, sheet:- 21x18cm