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Tullie House Museum : 1968.16.16
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Drawing, Gelt Bridge Looking Down the River, Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, Hayton, Cumberland, by John Wilson Carmichael, 1835.
An unfinished viaduct viaduct towers above a river which fills the foreground and beside which a single fisherman sits. A small stone building stands on the river's right bank. To either side of composition rise wooded riverbanks; a flock of birds rise overhead.
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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No 18 Gelt Bridge looking down the River JWC 1835
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