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item:- Armitt Library :
A6641.47
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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.
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No. 47.
WAST WATER.
...
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. ...
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source type:-
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Green 1810 (plate 47)
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inscription:-
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printed top right
[47]
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inscription:-
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printed bottom
WAST WATER. / 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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wxh, page:-
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74x52.5cm
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652x477mm (about)
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wxh, image:-
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63x39cm (about)
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