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Painting, watercolour, The English Gate and Gaol,
Carlisle, Cumberland, by Robert Carlyle snr, 1791.
Courtyard framed on two sides by English Gate to rear and
the jail, which stands at right angles to it, to right. In
centre foreground stand four figures; a lady and three
gentlemen. To far right of composition a man walks past,
reading a pamphlet (?) as he walks; a dead rabbit hangs
limply from his right hand. To left, an elderly man
approaches the doorway of the building which stands opposite
the jail. Wooded landscape lies beyond.
One of a set of 11 original drawings for proposed aquatints
The Antiquities of the City of Carlisle, 1791
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