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Print, uncoloured engraving, View of a Waterfall at
Rydal, ie Low Fall, Rydal, Westmorland, painted by J
Barrett, engraved and published by Samuel Middiman, London,
1785.
Plate 18 from Select Views in Great Britain, engraved and
published by Samuel Middiman, 3 Grafton Street, Tottenham
Court Road, London, 1784-92.
There is accompanying text in English and French:-
PLATE XVIII. / VIEW of a WATERFALL at RYDAL, WESTMORELAND. /
THE romantic little Waterfall in Sir Michael Le Fleming's
Orchard, at Rydal, was first noticed by the reverend and
learned Editor of Mr. Gray's Letters; the Reader will not,
therefore, be displeased to have Mr. Mason's own Account of
it transcribed in this Place. / '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 Sides, but has its 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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