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Tullie House Museum : 1968.16.12
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Drawing, Cowrin Hill Cut from the Bridge; West, Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, Cowran Cutting, Hayton, Cumberland, by John Wilson Carmichael, 1835.
In centre foreground a track upon which stands a small wagon runs parallel with the railway cutting. pause at the top of a steep railway cutting; below, to right of composition, several figures leading horses with carts walk along the tracks which have been laid. To either side of the cutting lie hilly fields, a small farmhouse standing to extreme right. A distant view of wooded countryside is visible through the cutting.
Carmichael executed 22 pencil drawings of the construction of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway at the suggestion of the Rail Company.
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Cowrin Hill Cut from the Bridge. West JWC. 1835
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