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Print, engraving, The Lower Waterfall at Rydal, Lakes,
Cumbria, painted by Joseph Farington, engraved by B T
Pouncy, published by W Byrne, 69 Titchfield Street, London,
1785.
The waterfall, Low Fall? from below, surrounded by trees,
the bridge visible above.
Plate 13 from Views of the Lakes, &c, in Cumberland and
Westmorland, published 1789.
Pasted in the Lowther scrapbook, vol.1; between pp.174-175;
with descriptive text:-.
LOWER WATERFALL at RYDAL / THIS Cascade is seen through the
Window of the Summer-House in Sir Michael Le Fleming's
Garden at Rydal Hall. There is another Fall of the same
Stream extremely well worth seeing though in a different
Stile of Beauty a little above the House. Public mention was
first made of the elegant little Scene which is the Subject
of this Plate by Mr. Mason, the Editor of Mr. Gray's
Letters, nor will the Reader to be displeased to have the
Account of it in his own Words. 'Here Nature has performed
every Thing in little that she usually executes on her
larger Scale; and on that Account, like the Miniature
Painter, seems to have finished every part of it in a
studied Manner: not a little Fragment of Rock thrown into
the Bason, not a single Stem of Brushwood that starts from
its craggy Side but has a picturesque Meaning; and the
little central Stream dashing down a Cleft of the darkest
coloured Stone, produces an Effect of Light and Shadow
beautiful beyond Description. This little theatrical Scene
might be painted as large as the Original, on a Canvas not
bigger than those usually dropped in the Opera-House.'
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from:-
Scrapbook, 4 volumes, History of Westmorland and Cumberland
Illustrated, of descriptive texts, maps, and prints of views
and coats of arms, for Westmorland and Cumberland, assembled
by a member of the Lowther Family, late 18th early 19th
century.
The volumes are quarter bound, with marbled paper on the
covers; each has a bookplate inside the front cover. The
pages cut from various sources are nicely mounted, two sided
pieces set neatly in a window in the scrapbook page.
The main content is the whole of the two volumes of The
History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and
Cumberland, by Joseph Nicolson and Richard Burn, published
London, 1777. Nicolson and Burn volume 1 is in scrapbook
volumes 1 and 2, volume 2 in scrapbook volumes 3 and 4. Maps
and prints are interspersed to make an illustrated version
of the history.
Some of the sources of maps and prints have been
recognised:-
Maps - coast of Cumberland etc by Andrew Dury, 1764;
Westmorland and Cumberland by Richard Blome, 1673; sheets
from Britannia Depicta, Emanuel Bowen, 1720; Cumberland by
John Speed, Henry Overton edn 1695; Cumberland by John Cary
1787.
Prints from the Set of prints, 20 engravings, Views of the
Lakes etc in Cumberland and Westmorland, drawn by Joseph
Farington, published by William Byrne, London, 1789. Note
that plate numbers vary from edition to edition of this set.
Prints from the Antiquities of Great Britain, drawings by
Thomas Hearne, engraved by William Byrne, published by
Hearne and Byrne, London, 1786-1807.
Prints from Britannia Illustrata, drawings by Leonard Knyff,
engraved by John Kip, published London, 1707-1740.
Print from A Tour in England and Scotland, by Thomas Newte,
published by G G J and J Robinson, Paternoster Row, London,
1788..
Some of the coat of arms are cut from A Display of Heraldrie
by John Guillim late Pursuivant at Armes, published London,
about 1610-11 to 1755.
Coats of arms probably from The Baronetage of England, by
Edward Kimber and Richard Johnson, published London? 1771.
Pages from The Antiquarian Repertory, by Francis Grose,
Thomas Astle, et al, published London, 1775-1809.
Text from the Baronetage of England by Collins?
Scraps cut from an unidentified gazetteer.
At the end is the title page and pp.7-51 from A General View
of the Agriculture of the County of Cumberland, by John
Bailey and George Culley, published by C Macrae, London,
1794.
Individual maps and prints are documented separately; with a
note of their position in the scrapbooks.
inscription:-
: embossed: label on spine: (tatty remains): HI[ ] / [
]/WEST[ ]M[ ] / [ ] / CUM[ ]M[ ] / ILLUS[ ]T[E ]
inscription:-
: printed & embossed: bookplate: gold on grey; crest, 6
annulets from the coat of arms, flowers, thistles: LOWTHER
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