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Print, soft ground etching, Coniston Water, Coniston, Lancashire, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1810.
Plate 1 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810.
No. 1.
CONISTON WATER.
CONISTON water is six miles in length, and the greatest breadth three quarters of a mile; it is encircled by an excellent road, which is often on the margin of the water and scarcely ever a mile from it: the most interesting part of this road is that which lies on the eastern side of the lake, and is a part of that usually travelled by tourists in their way to Coniston, or Hawkshead, from Ulverstone.
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The view here presented is a mile from the foot of the lake, and is of the Man mountain, or, as it is more frequently called, the Old Man, with the pointed summit of Enfoot on the right, and Dove Crag on the left, a range of line probably more picturesque than is
exhibited by these mountains on any stand from or near the road before spoken of; the middle grounds and foregrounds are, however, better on some stations north of the one here chosen.
source type:- Green 1810 (plate 1)
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CONISTON WATER. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1810.
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J WHATMAN / 1813
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