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Print, aquatint, Gatesgarthdale, by William Gilpin,
1772-74, published by T Cadell and W Davies, Strand, London,
1808.
Vol.1 opposite p.235 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:-
'XV. / This print was intended to give some idea of that
kind of rocky scenery, of which Gatesgarth-dale is composed;
and of that solemnity which it assumed, when we saw the
sweeping clouds pass over it's summits: but I am sorry to
say, it does not express the idea so well as I would wish.
The proofs of this print escaped me too soon. Indeed I
thought it had been brought nearer my idea, than I find it
is. The clouds are ill made out: the distant rocks are
worse; and the figures, as a scale to the perspective, are
twice as large as they ought or be.- With these hints,
however, I hope the imagination of the spectator may not be
misled by the deficiencies of the print. / Page 235.'
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