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Tullie House Museum : 1935.80.2
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Painting, watercolour, The Irish Gate, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Robert Carlyle snr, 1791.
the Irish Gate stands in centre of composition, its studded doors thrown open, adjoined to right by a low sandstone building with a pitched roof. To left stand two townhouses beside which a horse and cart are partially visible. In centre foreground four figures walk along the cobbled roadway leading towards the Gate; two gentlemen conversing, and a couple who have their backs towards the viewer.
One of a set of 11 original drawings for proposed aquatints The Antiquities of the City of Carlisle, 1791
This is one of 17 of Carlyle's works copied by Matthew Ellis Nutter and published as lithographs in 1835 by Thurnam as Carlisle in the Olden Time. See CALMG:1956.24 for lithograph version in which the disposition of figures differs from the original and the horse and cart are fully visible
inscription:- inscribed bottom centre
THE IRISH GATE, CARLISLE.
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