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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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