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Tullie House Museum : 1968.16.14
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Drawing, Gelt Bridge, Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, Hayton, Cumberland, by John Wilson Carmichael, 1835.
Scene of construction workers building a viaduct above a river; wooden scaffolds support two of the arches and provide a platform halfway up the structure. To left of foreground, two figures converse beside a pile of blocks of masonry. A small stone building and a pile of uncut logs stand beside the river, the far bank of which is heavily wooded.
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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Gelt Bridge No 16 JWC. 1835
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