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Tullie House Museum : 1970.33.9
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Painting, watercolour, Landscape with a Farmyard Scene, Cumbria, perhaps by Robert Carlyle snr, 1790s.
In the foreground, beside a lampost, an agricultural worker wearing a smock sits astride one of the two ponies pulling his cart in which stand a donkey, a cow and two calves?. He looks over towards a thatched pigsty to extreme left of composition outside which stand a pig and two boars. To right of composition stands a barn. In the distance, beyond a military looking building, lie distant hills beneath a blue sky.
A farmer going to market?
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