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Print, soft ground etching, Barrow Cascade, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1808.
Plate 36 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810.
No. 36.
BARROW CASCADE.
Barrow Cascade lies at the back of Barrow House, which is the property of Joseph Pocklington, Esq.; Barrow House commands a fine view of Skiddaw, with Derwent Water.
In every cascade there is a particular quantity of water which is more pleasant to the eye than any other quantity; and those who may view the one at Barrow under favourable circumstances, will, it is trusted, be highly gratified, and be ready to pronounce it the most charming picture, of its kind, among the mountains. The course of the water has been diverted from its original channel by Mr. Pocklington, who had previously excavated the rock, and who has given the whole to the public eye in its present beauty. ...
source type:- Green 1810 (plate 36)
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BARROW CASCADE. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1808.
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J WHATMAN / 1819
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