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Armitt Library : A6641.6
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Print, soft ground etching, Windermere lake, Windermere, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1808.
Plate 6 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810.
No. 6.
WINDERMERE.
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This print of Windermere is from a field near the turnpike gate at Waterhead, and is looking into Langdale - Bow fell and Langdale pikes are the principal features in the distance, but a part of Loughrigg fell is on the right - the houses at Brathay and Clappersgate assist in composing the middle ground. - The trees on the left were taken from the hedge-row on the right hand, with a view to benefit the composition - for though the distances on Windermere are exquisite, as seen in nature; yet, by their remoteness from the eye, and the consequent monotony of the lines composing those distances, they generally require the aid of other objects with a view to destroy that monotony, and otherwise improve the intended picture.
source type:- Green 1810 (plate 6)
inscription:- printed top right
6
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WINDERMERE. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1808.
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J WHATMAN / 1813
wxh, page:- 74x52.5cm
wxh, plate:- 675x477mm (about)
wxh, image:- 66x41cm (about)