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Print, aquatint, Windermere lake, by William Gilpin, 1772-74, published by T Cadell and W Davies, Strand, London, 1808.
Vol.1 opposite p.143 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:-
'IX. / This view of the middle part of Windermere, is taken from the grounds a little to the north of Bowness. The distance, as the reader will observe from the plan, is composed of that country, which shoots away towards the south. The high grounds make a part of Furness-fell; which is described, in page 143, stretching along the western shores of the lake towards the north.- Below Furness-fells appear some of the islands of the lake, particularly the great island; which is the most southern of them./ pAGE 143.'
source type:- Gilpin 1786 (3rd edn 1808)