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Tullie House Museum : 1981.29
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Painting, watercolour, The Way through the Wood, Cumberland, by William James Fairlie, 1855.
Single figure in landscape; a young woman approaches the edge of a shallow rocky river flowing horizontally across lower plane of composition, a pail balanced on her head. Behind her stands a drystone wall with inbuilt stile over which she has climbed. Thick woodland lies beyond.
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The way through the Wood Wm J Fairlie /55
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