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Print, uncoloured engraving, Wastdale Village, drawn by Joseph Farington, engraved by J Landseer, published by T Cadell and W Davies, Strand, London, 1815.
Plate 25 in The Lakes of Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland ... with text by Thomas Hartwell Horne:-
WASTDALE VILLAGE, / IS situated among the western mountains of Cumberland, about two miles north from Eskdale; and has in its front the Lake of Wast-Water. From the difficulty of access to these interesting objects, except on the side of Egremont, this Village and Lake are seldom visited by strangers, but the traveller will be well rewarded on approaching the secluded and truly alpine valley in which the village is situated. Here every thing is rural, and seen in the true style of pastoral beauty and simplicity. Excepting the opening towards the Lake the valley is closely surrounded by mountains. That which is most conspicuous in our view rises in the form of a cone, to a stupendous height, and presents a precipitous front; which, under varying effects of light and shade, exhibits alternately the aweful, the beautiful, and the sublime. It is a delightful recess, different in its character from any other in this country, formed of magnificent, romantic, and pastoral scenery. The road runs along the north side of the Lake, which is about three miles in length, and three quatrers of a mile broad in the widest part. The
Screes, a very lofty ridge of mountains, runs along the southern shore, and the loose rocks on its sides are in almost constant motion, shivering down into the water: sometimes, however, their progress is arrested by large fragments of rocks, which have unaccountably stopt in their descent, and by parts, which being too precipitous for the stones to rest on, are darkened with mosses; and every variety of form and colour is reflected by the dark water at its foot.
source type:- Farington 1816 (plate 25)
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Drawn by J. Farington R.A. / Engraved by J. Landseer A.R.A. / Wastdale Village. / London Published Septr. 15, 1815, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand.
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