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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
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