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item:- Tullie House Museum :
1970.33.14
image:- ©
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Print, The Viaduct over the River Eden at Wetheral, Corby
Bridge, Wetheral, Cumberland, drawn by by Matthew Ellis
Nutter, engraved by Andrew Picken, published by Charles
Thurnam, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1835.
To right of foreground a farmhand wearing a smock drives
cattle and sheep along the wide path running alongside the
river Eden. Behind him a man loads a cart with sacks from a
small mill in middle distance. Wetheral Viaduct runs
horizontally across centre of composition, a train crossing
it from left to right. A wooded hillside descends to the
water's edge on the far bank of the river.
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inscription:-
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inscribed bottom left on print
Drawn from Nature by M.E. Nutter.
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inscription:-
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printed bottom centre
THE VIADUCT OVER THE RIVER EDEN AT WETHERAL. Designed by
Mr Francis Giles, Civil Engineer, and Built by Mr W.S.
Denton, for the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Company
Length 60.0 feet, Height 100 feet. - Finished in the Year
1835. Carlisle, Published by Charles Thurnam, 1835. Printed
by Day and Haghe, London.
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inscription:-
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inscribed bottom right on print
On Zinc by A. Picken.
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wxh, image:-
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28x19cm
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wxh, sheet:-
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37x26cm
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