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Tullie House Museum : 1935.80.10
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Painting, watercolour, The Scotch Gate, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Robert Carlyle snr, 1791.
The Scotch Gate stands in centre of composition, its studded doors thrown open, adjoined by other buildings to both left and right. In centre foreground a lone gentleman walks by; to his right stand two other gentlemen, conversing. Through the Gate a tall sandstone building is seen on the opposite side of the street beyond.
One of a set of 11 original drawings for proposed aquatints The Antiquities of the City of Carlisle, 1791
This is one of 17 of Carlyle's works copied by Matthew Ellis Nutter for Carlisle in the Olden Time.
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THE SCOTCH GATE, CARLISLE.
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