Oil painting of market stead lane before most of its buildings were demolished and the street widened in the 1820s, captured by scottish artist john ralston (1789-1833). This work is a more detailed and finessed version of an earlier graphite drawing, market lane, manchester (1821), which was included in views of the ancient buildings of manchester (1823-1825). Now in the collection of the whitworth, university of manchester; http://www. Artuk. Org/artworks/market-stead-lane-manchester-206871. Date: c.1825.
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