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Print, soft ground etching, Wast Water, Nether Wasdale, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1808.
Plate 47 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810.
No. 47.
WAST WATER.
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The views on the travelled side of the lake certainly deserve great attention; the one here given is about a mile from its foot; and the road, which is of a fine elevation above the water, is seen meandering among the rocks
to a good distance; Yew-barrow lies on the left, and under it, the enclosed lands of Bowderdale; part of the Screes are on the right; Wastdale Head at the end of the lake, by its enclosures, serves as a scale whereby to judge the vastness of the mountains; and over them is Great Gable, so called from its resemblance to the roof of a house: between Gable and Yew-barrow see a part of Kirk Fell, and between Gable and the Screes, Lingmell, from which rises Scho-fell, the summit of which cannot be seen from this place. ...
source type:- Green 1810 (plate 47)
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[47]
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WAST WATER. / 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, plate:- 652x477mm (about)
wxh, image:- 63x39cm (about)