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Tullie House Museum : 1935.80.4
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Painting, watercolour, The Inner Gate of Carlisle Castle, Cumberland, by Robert Carlyle snr, 1791.
In centre foreground stand a young couple, she gesturing to the left. Behind them stands the castle gateway, the left hand leaf of its door partially open.
One of a set of 11 original drawings for proposed aquatints The Antiquities of the City of Carlisle, 1791
The work was adapted by Matthew Ellis Nutter, being executed as one of a series of 17 works by Carlyle and published by Thurnam as Carlisle in the Olden Time, 1835. See CALMG:1978.108.74.2
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The INNER GATE of CARLISLE CASTLE.
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