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Tullie House Museum : 1986.100.5
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Painting, watercolour, Half Moon Battery, Carlisle Castle, Cumberland, by Matthew Ellis Nutter, 1830s.
Carlisle Castle and gatehouse viewed from above the moat. The Half Moon Battery lies in the foreground and beyond it the moat is crossed by a single span bridge. In the distance may be seen the tower of Carlisle Cathedral. Two soldiers in eighteenth century uniform walk along the bank of the moat.
inscription on backing paper of frame (now covered) reads 'The Halfmoon Battery, Moat and Bridge, Carlisle Castle
inscription:- inscribed reverse
The Halfmoon Battery, Moat and Bridge, Carlisle Castle
no longer visible due to new backboard
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