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Tullie House Museum : 2004.1.25
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Print, lithograph, The Trades Guilds, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Matthew, Ellis Nutter, engraved by C Haghe, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1835.
In centre of composition stands the Guildhall, decked with guild banners, ladies and gentlemen wearing eighteenth century dress walking by it or approaching the entrance. To right of composition stands a public house on the street corner with a ragged beggar taking alms from a lady who holds a boy by the hand.
The work was executed as one of a series of 17 copies of works by Robert Carlyle published by Thurnam as Carlisle in the Olden Time
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