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Print, aquatint, like Dacre Castle, by William Gilpin, 1772-74, published by T Cadell and W Davies, Strand, London, 1808.
Vol.2 opposite p.85 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:-
'XIX. / This view has more the air of Dacre-castle than any of the other old castles we met with: but it is chiefly introduced to shew the beautiful effect which some of these ruins had, when seen, under a gloomy hemisphere, inlightened by the rays of a setting sun. / Page 85.'
source type:- Gilpin 1786 (3rd edn 1808)