Gilpin 1786

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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.'
	source type:-	Gilpin 1786 (3rd edn 1808)

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