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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.'
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