St John's Vale
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item:- Armitt Library : A6641.27 image:- © see bottom of page |
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Print, soft ground etching, St John's Vale, St John's
Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland, by William Green,
Ambleside, Westmorland, 1808.
Plate 27 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. |
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No. 27.
ST. JOHN'S VALE. This much admired valley opens itself on the eye of the spectator about ten miles from Ambleside, on his approach to Keswick; and this view of it, is from a field on the right of the mile stone, and chosen because the mountains compose better than from the crags on the opposite side of the road; but the traveller ought to have his view from amongst these crags, as the picture is thereby excellently benefited by them as a fore-ground; the stony part of which was added to the distance here presented. The rock of St. John, which rises above Legberthwaite mill, and beyond that rock Wanthwaite Crags, bound the valley on the right, and the How and Naddle Fell on the opposite side; in a fine line see Saddleback end the perspective. ... |
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| source type:- | Green 1810 (plate 27) | |
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ST. JOHN'S VALE. / 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:- | 703x475mm (about) | |
| wxh, image:- | 67x44cm (about) | |