Lower Fall at Rydal
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Print, soft ground etching, Lower Fall at Rydal,
Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1810.
Plate 18 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. |
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No. 18.
LOWER FALL AT RYDAL. Highly to the credit of the Rydal family, who have given to the public a sight of the falls, excellent foot-paths have been made to them from the road: this view is from a summer-house which is near the hall, and is a scene as complete in its kind as any in the country. - What Mr. Gilpin has excellently said of this fall, will be more properly applied to it as observed from a bank a few yards above the summer-house than from it. - "The water falls within a few yards of the eye, which being rather above its level, has a long perspective view of the stream, as it hurries from the higher grounds, tumbling in various little breaks through its rocky channel, darkened with thicket, till it arrives at the edge of the precipice before the window, from whence it rushes into the bason, which is formed by nature in the native rock." |
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| source type:- | Green 1810 (plate 18) | |
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LOWER FALL AT RYDAL. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1810. |
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J WHATMAN / 1813 |
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| wxh, page:- | 74x52.5cm | |
| wxh, plate:- | 678x478mm (about) | |
| wxh, image:- | 65x45cm (about) | |