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Tullie House Museum : 1935.80.3
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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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The ENGLISH GATE and GAOL, CARLISLE.
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