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Tullie House Museum : 1978.108.77.1
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Painting, watercolour, Distant View of the City from the Northwest, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Robert Carlyle snr, 1791.
Frontispiece to watercolour album The Antiquities of the City of Carlisle. The page includes text the oval watercolour of Carlisle from the north west, taken from Etterby Scaur looking south east framed by trees. The foreground includes two men and a group of sheep in farmland. In the middle distance from left to right Carlisle Cathedral, Castle and battlements and Priestbeck Bridge. The Pennines can be seen in the distance.
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THE Antiquities OF THE City of Carlisle CONTAINING : VIEWS of the CITY_ CASTLE_ CATHEDRAL_CITADEL_GATES_WALLS_&c.with PLANS. DRAWN ON THE SPOT BY ROBERT CARLILE. The first Copy. MDCCXCI.
inscription:- inscribed below oval watercolour
Distant View of the City from the Northwest
wxh, sheet:- 322x418mm
wxh, image:- 23x18cm