View of a Waterfall at Rydal

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	item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.124 image:- ©  see bottom of page	click to enlarge
	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.'
	source type:-	Middiman 1784-92 (?)
	inscription:-	printed bottom, left, right, centre Painted by J. Barrett. / Engraved by S. Middiman. / VIEW of a WATER-FALL at RYDAL. / Published as the Act directs, Decr. 12. 1785, by S. Middiman, London.
	wxh, sheet:-	26.5x19.5cm
	wxh, plate:-	203x157mm
	wxh, image:-	183x125mm

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