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Print, aquatint, wild country, by William Gilpin, 1772-74, published by T Cadell and W Davies, Strand, London, 1808.
Vol.1 opposite p.171 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:-
'XI. / n illustration of that kind of wild country of which we saw several instances, as we entered Cumberland. In general, the mountains make the most considerable part of these scenes. But when any of them is furnished with a distant view of a lake, the landscape is greatly inriched. / Page 171.'
source type:- Gilpin 1786 (3rd edn 1808)