button to main menu Remains of the Dormitory now called the Cloisters, Carlisle
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Tullie House Museum : 1935.80.9
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Painting, watercolour, Remains of the Dormitory now called the Cloisters, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Robert Carlyle snr, 1791.
View of the cloisters adjoining the refectory from within the cathedral close. In centre foreground a gentleman directs an elderly man, gesturing beneath the leftmost arch through which a track leads to the graveyard 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:1978.108.74.12
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REMAINS of the DORMITORY now called the CLOISTERS, CARLISLE.
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