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Painting, oil painting, Carlisle from Stanwix,
Cumberland, by Matthias Read, about 1720.
View of Carlisle from Stanwix; the foreground road winds
down to the River Eden in the midground, cattle grazing on
the meadow beside it. A poorly clad couple stand conversing
to right of foreground whilst a horseman accompanied by a
man on foot head towards the city; he turns in his saddle as
his greyhound bounds in the opposite direction. The
composition is framed to left by slender trees and to right
by two grassy slopes and a small hilltop church.
This painting originally hung in the Grapes Inn, Carlisle.
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