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Print, lithograph, The Irish Gate, Carlisle, Cumberland
drawn by Matthew Ellis Nutter, 1833, engraved by C Haghe,
published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, Cumberland, and by
Charles Tilt, London, 1835.
Irish Gate stands in centre of composition, its studded
doors thrown open, adjoined to right by a low sandstone
building with a pitched roof outside which a couple
converse. To left of composition stand two townhouses; a
couple stand conversing on the doorstep of the left house
whilst beside the other a horse and cart pass by. To left of
foreground a couple walk along the pavement.
The work was executed as one of a series of 17 copies of
works by Robert Carlyle and published by Thurnam as Carlisle
in the Olden Time.
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