print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.7019
- Title
- Object: Entrance Gateway Carlisle Castle
- Description
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View through a massive arched gateway with thick wooden doors and a portcullis; two men in military uniform approach on horseback, passing a guard and a man sitting with dogs on the left; buckets and other objects inside the door in the right foreground.
Mixed method mezzotint
- Production date
- 1840s (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 302 millimetres
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Width: 213 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The Lennox-Boyd database records also a state before publication line.
From a group illustrating border castles (2010,7081.2018-2020). Probably connected to M A Richardson's book 'Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences, Historical Facts, Legendary and Descriptive Ballads, &c., connected with the Counties of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham', illustrated with woodcuts and published in six volumes 1841-1846, and republished in 1846 by Bohn as 'The Borderer's Table Book'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.7019