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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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