Distant View of Whitbarrow Scar, Westmoreland.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Messers. Longman & Co. Paternoster Row & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London, Feby. 1, 1816.
Coloured aquatint, 230 x 300mm. 9 x 11¾".
Whitbarrow in Cumbria forms part of the Morecambe Bay Pavements Special Area of Conservation due to its supporting some of the best European examples of natural limestone habitats. The hill lies about five miles south-west of Kendal, close to the village of Witherslack. It is a mixture of woodland, grassland and limestone pavement. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 9629] £110.00
Published by Messers. Longman & Co. Paternoster Row & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London, Feby. 1, 1816.
Coloured aquatint, 230 x 300mm. 9 x 11¾".
Whitbarrow in Cumbria forms part of the Morecambe Bay Pavements Special Area of Conservation due to its supporting some of the best European examples of natural limestone habitats. The hill lies about five miles south-west of Kendal, close to the village of Witherslack. It is a mixture of woodland, grassland and limestone pavement. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 9629] £110.00