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Description: | Colour lithograph . This view shows Haweswater lake in the valley of Mardale, the Lake District, and a small waterfall nearby known as Wallergill Force. This scenic view was drawn on site in the mid-19th century by James Baker Pyne, lithographed by William Gauci (active 1825-54) and first published by Thomas Agnew and Sons of Manchester in 1853, as part of a set of prints titled ‘The English Lake District’. Pyne’s drawing was later engraved by Thomas Picken and included as an illustration to Pyne’s ‘Lake Scenery of England’, published in 1859. Accompanying text in this publication refers to the view as follows:
‘This small Lake, three miles long by half a mile broad, is seldom visited, whilst the waterfall is almost unknown. There are, however, few finer or more picturesque views in the entire district...’
Pyne also produced an oil painting of ‘Haweswater from Wallergill Force’ (1850; Royal Holloway College, University of London), painted in warm, rich colours, which is described in ‘The Victorian Countryside’ (1981) by G. E. Mingay as demonstrating ‘a Claudian glow, deployed to great effect’. | Subjects: | mountain topography waterfall landscape C19th lake fisherman stone/rock man Victorian genre | Temporal: | 1853 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | James Baker Pyne (Artist) | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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