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Tullie House Museum : 1978.108.180
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Painting, oil painting, Askham Mill, by Samuel Bough, 1856.
Fine autumn day; Askham mill stands to right of composition beside a shallow stream. A mounted horseman approaches it from the foreground, leading a second horse. Tall oak trees stand on the left hand bank, at the foot of a sloping field. In the middle distance the stream is crossed by a two span stone bridge beyond which lie a distant lake and fells, bathed in the glow of approaching sunset.
There was a corn mill at Askham, but a view with a bridge behind does not have a lake behind that. ...
wxh, canvas:- 151x94cm