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Description: | Landscape - from the foreground on the left to the middle distance is a line of trees that curve around a lake or riverbank. Near it sits a woman in white; standing in front of her, fishing, is a woman in blue with a red shawl. In the foreground is a man, also fishing, dressed in brown. In the distance, in the other bank, is a temple. It is of a light stone, with a darker coloured roof, and has a small dome on top, with a flag; there are many windows. To the right of the building is a group of trees.
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Nuthall Temple. Built by Sir C. Sedley M.P. for Nottingham 1754-7, it replaced an older Nut Hall, and was an imitation of Palladio's Villa Capra near Vicenza. It was demolished in 1929 and the site was obilterated for the building of the M1 motorway in 1966.,
Accession number: NCM 1949-88 | Subjects: | topography sport (fishing) rivers and lakes architecture figures Nottingham and Notts. | Temporal: | 1869 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | by DAWSON/Alfred | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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