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Tullie House Museum : 1970.33.14
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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.
inscription:- inscribed bottom left on print
Drawn from Nature by M.E. Nutter.
inscription:- 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.
inscription:- inscribed bottom right on print
On Zinc by A. Picken.
wxh, image:- 28x19cm
wxh, sheet:- 37x26cm