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Falcon Crag, Borrowdale
Falcon Crag
civil parish:-   Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   NY27232058 (about) 
1Km square:-   NY2720
10Km square:-   NY22

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BRP03.jpg  Walla Crag to the left.
(taken 23.9.2009)  
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BPQ07.jpg (taken 24.8.2008)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 10) 
placename:-  Falcon Crag
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
evidence:-   old print:- Green 1804 (plate 16) 
placename:-  Falcon Crag
item:-  fishing
source data:-   Print, uncoloured aquatint, Falcon Crag, on Derwent Water, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1804.
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Plate 16 from a series. 
printed at bottom:-  "Falcon Crag, / on Derwent Water. / Drawn and Engraved by Wm. Green, and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1804."
printed at top right:-  "16"
item:-  Armitt Library : 2014.161
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1810 (plate 34) 
placename:-  Falcon Crag
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Falcon Crag on Derwent Water, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1810.
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Plate 34 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. 
printed at top right:-  "34"
printed at bottom:-  "FALCON CRAG ON DERWENT WATER. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1810."
watermark:-  "J WHATMAN / 1813"
item:-  Armitt Library : A6641.34
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evidence:-   old text:- Green 1814
placename:-  Falcon Crag
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
image GN09p16, button  goto source
page 16:-  "..."
"The Fells above Barrow common rise with magnificent grandeur from the water. Falcon Crag and Eve Crag are prodigious masses of rock, and reach nearly the summit of the mountain."
evidence:-   outline view:- Martineau 1855
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains seen from Applethwaite near Keswick, drawn by L Aspland, engraved by W Banks, Edinburgh, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855.
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Folded in opposite p.93 in A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau.  "MOUNTAINS SEEN FROM APPLETHWAITE NEAR KESWICK."
"L Aspland Delt. / W Banks Sc Edinr."
The view is captioned, numbers referring to mountains in the image:-  "1 Wallow Crag, 2 Falcon Crag, 3 Shepherd's Crag / Lowdore below, 4 Glaramara, 5 Brund, 6 Castle Crag, 7 Great End, 8 Scawfell Pike, 9 Catbell, 10, High Stile, 11 Red Pike, 12 Grasmoor, 13 Causey Pike, 14 Melbreak, 15 Grisdale Pike"
item:-  Armitt Library : A1159.14
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evidence:-   mine plan:- Postlethwaite 1877
placename:-  Falcon Crag
source data:-   Print, drawing, geological section, Section through Falcon Crag and Bleaberry Fell, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by J C Ward, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
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On p.20 of Mines and Mining in the English Lake District, by John Postlethwaite. 
printed, upper left  "SECTION THROUGH / FALCON CRAG AND BLEABERRY FELL. / ..."
printed, bottom  "... / From the Memoir of the Geology of the Northern part of the English Lake District by J. C. Ward, F.G.S."
item:-  JandMN : 162.11
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evidence:-   old print:- Heaton Cooper 1905 (edn 1908) 
placename:-  Falcon Crag
item:-  fishing
source data:-   Print, colour halftone, Falcon Crag, Derwentwater, Borrowdale, Cumberland, from a watercolour painting by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 2nd edn 1908.
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Opposite p.152 of The English Lakes, painted by Alfred Heaton Cooper, described by William T Palmer. 
printed at tissue opposite the print:-  "FALCON CRAG, DERWENTWATER"
printed at signed lower right:-  "[A HEATON COOPER]"
item:-  JandMN : 468.52
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evidence:-   outline view:- Matthew 1866
placename:-  Falcon Crag
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, View from Watendlath Road of Derwent Water and Bassenthwaite, Cumberland, published by J Richardson, Highgate, Kendal, Westmorland, 1866.
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Tipped in before p.1 of The English Lakes, Peaks and Passes, from Kendal to Keswick, by George King Matthew. 
printed at bottom:-  "VIEW FROM WATENDLATH ROAD OF / DERWENT WATER AND BASSENTHWAITE."
printed at caption to mountains:-  "... Falcon Cra[ ]"
item:-  Armitt Library : A1168.5
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900) 
placename:-  Falcon Crag
source data:-   Print, lithograph, Outline Views, Skiddaw and Derwent Water - Mountains as seen at Lodore Hotel, and Mountains as seen at the Third Gate on Ascending Latrigg on the Way to Skiddaw, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.
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"... 15 Falcon Crag ... 2 Falcon Crag ..."
item:-  JandMN : 37.14
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846) 
placename:-  Falcon Crag
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains as seen at Lowdore Inn, and Mountains as seen at the Third Gate on Ascending Latrigg on the Way to Skiddaw, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1846.
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BC02E4.jpg
"... 15 Falcon Crag ... 2 Falcon Crag ..."
item:-  JandMN : 32.7
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evidence:-   outline view:- 
placename:-  Falcon Crag
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite Lakes from the Road to Watendlath, Cumberland, published by Sherwood and Co, London, 1836?
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The view is from just above Ashness Bridge. Objects in the view are identified by a caption at the bottom (unfortunately the print is pale, so some objects are unclear, and the caption seems to be a little misaligned) - Swinside, Lord's Seat, Barff, St. Herbert's I., Bassenthwaite L., Ramp's I., Vicar's I., Lord's I., Skiddaw Dodd, Castle Hill, Keswick, Skiddaw, Latrigg, Falcon Crag. 
printed at bottom:-  "DERWENTWATER and BASSENTHWAITE LAKES. / from the Road to Watendlath."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.370
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