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Description: | Oil on canvas. A similar view to this, also by James Baker Pyne, was lithographed by William Gauci and published by Thomas Agnew and Sons, Manchester, in 1853 as part of a set of prints collectively titled ‘The English Lake District’. The same image was later lithographed again by Thomas Picken for a series published by Day & Sons titled ‘Lake Scenery of England’ (1859). The lithographed version is very similar to this painting, although the arrangement of boats is different and the left corner of the image is filled with trees and vegetation. Text accompanying the lithograph in ‘The English Lake District’ states:
‘The point of view selected by Mr. Pyne, for this picture, is a space behind the turnpike, on the road from Ambleside to the Lake, and we are here presented with one of the wildest scenes of the most important lake of the district. The principle mountains observable from this locality, are Loughrigg Fell, Langdale Pikes, and Oxen Fell Cross. These, with mountains of minor importance, constitute the picture.’ | Subjects: | genre stream mountain forest lake travel & tourism house sailboat fire child topography woman family landscape C19th pier woodland painter awning man | Temporal: | 1849 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | James Baker Pyne | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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