Old Painted Ceiling in the Deanery, Carlisle

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	item:- Tullie House Museum : 1978.108.77.5 image:- ©  Tullie House Museum	click to enlarge
	Painting, watercolour, An Old Painted Ceiling in the Deanery, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Robert Carlyle snr, 1793. Included in an album The Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of St Mary. Detailed drawing of the ceiling in the Deanery, Carlisle Cathedral. Two main beams run north and south and two secondary beams run east to west dividing the ceiling into nine main compartments. At the intersection of the main and secondary beams there are four red shields with instruments of the passion. At the ends of the main beam there are a pelican in her piety, a mermaid, a jester and a human figure emerging from a tower. On the ceiling are a number of heraldic symbols and badges. There are parrots or popinjays for the Senhouse family. A ring necked parakeet. There are also scallop shells for the Dacre family, ragged staffs for Greystokes, choughs for Scropes, crescent and shackle bolts for Percys, eagles legs for Stanley. The roses might be heraldic or simply decorative. The pelican in her piety could be for Lumley and the mermaid for Berkley. Made for Storer's Graphic and Historical Descriptions of the Cathedrals of Great Britain.
	inscription:-	inscribed below An OLD PAINTED CEILING in the DEANERY, CARLISLE.
	wxh, sheet:-	32x42cm

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