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Tullie House Museum : 1986.100.4
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Painting, watercolour, Middle Gelt Bridge, Hayton, Cumberland, by Matthew Ellis Nutter, 1840s-50s.
View of Middle Gelt Bridge, a single span stone bridge, with a viaduct (Gelt Bridge) towering above it. Two women stand on the bridge, conversing. To right of composition, behind a tall tree, there stands a whitewashed building with ladders and implements leaning against its wall. To left of composition two small whitewashed houses standing on the bank of the river are visible through the arches of the viaduct.
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