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Tullie House Museum : 1921.11
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Painting, watercolour, Queen Mary's Tower, Carlisle Castle, Cumberland, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1797.
View of Queen Mary's Tower, overgrown with weeds, from beside the castle wall. Two men stand conversing beside the picket fence to its right. Slanting shadows are cast by the castle walls in the bright sunshine. Work is painted in monochromatic tomes of blue and grey.
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This sketch represents Queen Mary's Tower, Carlisle Castle which was pulled down in 1836. It was probably paintrd during Turner's first visit to Carlisle in 1797 and was in the possession of Dr Munro, Turner's early patron
not visible; beneath backboard
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