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Tullie House Museum : 1935.80.7
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Painting, watercolour, South East View of the Citadel of Carlisle, Cumberland, by Robert Carlyle snr, 1791.
Summertime; in centre of composition stands the citadel, its ramparts overgrown with weeds. In centre foreground a young couple walk arm in arm, he gesturing with his right arm. To their left stand two cows. To far left of composition the roofs of distant buildings are visible with open countryside beyond.
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:1978.108.74.4
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SOUTH EAST VIEW of the CITADEL of CARLISLE.
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