Goody Bridge in Grasmere
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item:- Armitt Library : A6641.25 image:- © see bottom of page |
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Print, soft ground etching, Goody Bridge in Grasmere, the
house, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside,
Westmorland, 1808.
A note with a similar print by William Green admits that he has moved the stepping stones nearer the house. Plate 25 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. |
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No. 25.
GOODY BRIDGE, IN GRASMERE. The buildings in this scene are called by the name of a stone bridge which is lower down the river, and on the way to Easedale from Grasmere church: to improve the composition, the stepping stones have been brought nearer to the houses than they actually are: the distance is Helme Crag, but the rocks on its summit, called the Lion and the Lamb, cannot be seen from this place. ... |
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| source type:- | Green 1810 (plate 25) | |
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printed top right
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GOODY BRIDGE IN GRASMERE. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1808. |
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J WHATMAN / 1813 |
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| wxh, page:- | 74x52.5cm | |
| wxh, plate:- | 702x477mm (about) | |
| wxh, image:- | 67x42cm (about) | |