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Print, soft ground etching, Ambleside from the Gale, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1808.
Plate 5 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810.
No. 5.
AMBLESIDE FROM THE GALE.
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The Gale is a field above that in which the fir trees stand as we enter on the Kendal road, the more embodied part of the village, and the most pleasant way of approaching this field on leaving the inns, is on the public road, by the fir trees and Gale house, entering the Gale field at the back of that house.
The scene in nature, from the Gale, comprehends more than half a circle, and the part which is here chosen, is looking towards the park and mountains of Rydal; the buildings nearest
the eye are a part of the market-place; that over the end of the foot path is the Salutation inn - part of the exhibition-house appears between the fir trees - the ancient building in the centre of this view, belongs to Mr. Edward Partridge, who resides in that part of it which is nearest the Salutation; and beyond this building appears Green Bank, the property of Matthew Harrison, Esq. and residence of the Misses Knott. Rydal hall and Rydal mount may be discovered beyond the fir trees.
source type:- Green 1810 (plate 5)
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AMBLESIDE FROM THE GALE. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1808.
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J WHATMAN / 1813
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