Gilpin 1786

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	Print, aquatint, contracted valley, by William Gilpin, 1772-74, published by T Cadell and W Davies, Strand, London, 1808. Vol.1 opposite p.120 in Observations on Several Parts of England, Particularly the Mountains and Lakes of Cumberland Westmoreland, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, 3rd edn 1808. The list of plates has:- 'VI. / The contracted valley may be considered as a species of fore-ground. The valley here represented, opens rather too abruptly. There is more beauty in this kind of landscape, when the removed screen folds more behind the front one; and the distance appears over the intersecting point. These scenes are generally decorated with a river; but sometimes only with a road. Of this latter kind is Middleton-dale. described in the 209th page of the IId vol./ The contracted valley is contrased by the open, extended vale; a scene of which kind is represented in the 41st page of the IId vol. / Page 120.'
	source type:-	Gilpin 1786 (3rd edn 1808)

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