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Dove Cottage : 2008.107.475
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Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Soskeld Bridge, St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland, drawn, engraved and published by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1820.
Plate 27 from a Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints.
The hills in the background are Saddleback; this view is probably in St John's in the Vale where there is a Sosgill Bridge. But that bridge is a stone arch. Could the stone arch be a later replacement?
source type:- Green 1790s-1820s
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SOSKELD BRIDGE. / Published at Ambleside Augt, 1, 1814 by Wm. Green.
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