button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.50-51
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others, which were good subjects for the pencil.

  plate 23
  Rydal Park
No. 23.


SCENE IN RYDAL PARK.

These oaks are near that last spoken of, and are given as an example of bold foreshortening; the distance between the trees is Nab Scar, north of which the line of mountains stretches nearly to Fairfield.

  plate 24
  Loughrigg
No. 24.


ROCKS ON LOUGHRIGG SIDE.

Part of Loughrigg Fell skirts the western side of Rydal Water, and from its surface are many rocky projections; the study presented is about half way up the hill, from the side of the lake.
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  plate 25
  Goody Bridge
No. 25.


GOODY BRIDGE, IN GRASMERE.

The buildings in this scene are called by the name of a stone bridge which is lower down the river, and on the way to Easedale from Grasmere church: to improve the composition, the stepping stones have been brought nearer to the houses than they actually are: the distance is Helme Crag, but the rocks on its summit, called the Lion and the Lamb, cannot be seen from this place.
Easedale is an arm of the vale of Grasmere, well wooded and charmingly sequestered among the mountains.

  plate 26
  Bramerigg Gill
No. 26.


BRAMERIGG GILL.

About four miles and three quarters from Ambleside, on the Keswick road, stands a smithy, and near to it a bridge,
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