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Tullie House Museum : 1936.4.3
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Painting, oil painting, Workington Bridge, over the River Derwent, Workington, Cumberland, by Samuel Bough, 1842.
A family group is seated in the foreground. Beside a wide river a small flock of sheep is being driven; cattle loiter in the shallows. Beyond the bridge rises a wooded hillside upon which stands Workington Hall; to right of composition lies a distant view of Workington.
inscription:- signed & dated bottom left
Sam Bough 1842
wxh, canvas:- 893x723mm