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Tullie House Museum : 2009.89.59
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Drawing, Keswick Lake and residence of Mackenzie Esq, Derwent Water, Cumberland, by William Havell, 1817.
Derwent Water with jetty in foreground on which stand two fisherman, a third fisherman can be seen in a boat on the lake beside the jetty. On the far distant shore stands a country house, residence of Mackenzie Esq. Lakeland hills in background. One of a set of eight 'Drawings for a Pocket Book' intended to be engraved, executed on the spot by the artist. Eight drawings pasted to one piece of paper all executed in pencil, brown wash and white gouache.
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September 1817