English Street, Carlisle

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	item:- Tullie House Museum : 1974.42.2 image:- ©  Tullie House Museum	click to enlarge
	Painting, watercolour, English Street, Carlisle, Cumberland, by James Burrell Smith, 1847. Early morning street scene with tradespeople delivering their wares. In the foreground a woman sits with a basket of goods beside her; to left, a woman approaches with a tray of goods balanced on her head and to right a man with a barrow stands conversing to a boy wearing a sailor suit. The courthouses stand to left of composition, a distant view of the cathedral being glimpsed above the buildings of the town. In the centre stands an imposing statue.
	inscription:-	signed & dated bottom right JB Smith 1847
	wxh, image:-	345x238mm

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