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item:- Armitt Library :
A6641.27
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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:-
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Green 1810 (plate 27)
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inscription:-
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printed top right
27
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inscription:-
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printed bottom
ST. JOHN'S VALE. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green,
and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1808.
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inscription:-
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watermark:
J WHATMAN / 1813
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74x52.5cm
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703x475mm (about)
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67x44cm (about)
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