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Print, uncoloured engraving, Drawing the Net at
Haweswater, painted by Jacob Thompson, 1767, engraved by J C
Armytage, published by Virtue and Co, London.
The scene was painted for William Baliol Brett, MP, a lawyer
who was later Lord Justice Brett in the Northern Circuit. He
was Solicitor General, 1868, and was created Viscount Esher,
1897; b.1815 d.1899. With him in the boat is his wife, and
his daughter and sons are nearby on the shore. Seated on a
ledge is the Earl of Lonsdale, and by him the Earl of
Malmesbury. The boatman, Captain F W Lowther, and Mr
Robinson, Secretary to Lord Lonsdale, are drawing the net.
Jacob Thompson, b.1896 d.1879, often stayed at Measandbeck
Hall, the home of Mr Bland, and drew many pictures of Hawes
Water.
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