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Tullie House Museum : 1968.16.17
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Drawing, Gelt Bridge From the Road Looking Down the River, Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, Hayton, Cumberland, by John Wilson Carmichael, 1835.
Scene of construction workers building a viaduct above a river. To left of foreground, beside the river, lies a pile of uncut logs and a small stone building. To either side of composition rise wooded riverbanks.
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 19. Gelt Bridge from the Road looking down the River JWC. 1835
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