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Armitt Library : A6641.60
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Print, soft ground etching, Glen Coin, Patterdale, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1808.
Plate 60 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810.
No. 59 and 60.
GLEN COIN.
Glen Coin is a farm house, belonging to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk.
The building itself is well formed for the purpose of an artist, and age has given more interest to the form, by planting mosses and other
vegetables upon it; the hand of time has likewise been judiciously at work with his pencil, his palette being set with all the hues of nature. By the side of this building runs a brook dividing Westmorland from Cumberland, and over the brook is a picturesque bridge, which bridge is represented in the last of this series of prints. ...
source type:- Green 1810 (plate 60)
inscription:- printed top right
60
inscription:- printed bottom
GLEN COIN. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1808.
inscription:- watermark:
J WHATMAN / 1813
wxh, page:- 74x52.5cm
wxh, plate:- 703x478mm (about)
wxh, image:- 68x45cm (about)