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Tullie House Museum : 1935.80.8
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Painting, watercolour, South West View of the Refectory, Carlisle Cathedral, Cumberland, by Robert Carlyle snr, 1791.
Summertime; in centre of composition stands the refectory, grass growing on its buttresses, the figure of a young boy emerging from its arched doorway to right. In centre, a single gentleman with a cane walks by whilst to left, two gentlemen stand conversing.
One of a set of 11 original drawings for proposed aquatints The Antiquities of the City of Carlisle, 1791.
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SOUTH WEST VIEW of the REFECTORY, CARLISLE.
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