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1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 13 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Atlas Eddie. |
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In the late eighteenth century, English writers discovered the landscape, not only in the paintings of Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin and Salvator Rosa, but also as a place to be visited and viewed as if it were a picture. No part of England was more discovered in this period than the Lake District, which was transformed over the course of the next century from a remote region of farmland and inaccessible hills into a wild and romantic landscape of picturesque lake and mountain, described in works such as Thomas West's A guide to the Lakes (1778). West's predecessors - Thomas Gray, Arthur Young, Thomas Pennant and William Hutchinson -had merely passed through the Lakes. West, a resident of the Lakes, took the reader on a tour of the district as a whole, visiting all the lakes, with the sole exception of Wastwater. A devotee of the Claude glass - a convex, tinted mirror in which the landscape appears as it might in a painting by Lorrain - West follows and improves upon Gray's technique of identifying 'stations' from which the landscape would appear at its most picturesque. West's guide remains something of a hybrid, however, with its lengthy antiquarian descriptions of the surrounding towns of Lancaster, Penrith and Kendal. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Lake District (England) -- Guidebooks -- Early works to 1800.
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Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Guide-books -- Early works to 1800.
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Travel -- 18th century -- Early works to 1800.
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Literature.
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Havell, Robert, -1832.
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Feary, John.
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Cockin, William, 1736-1801.
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Pennington, William, active 1776-1821, printer.
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Paas, Cornelius, 1736-1801.
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Perkins, Frederick, active 19th century, former owner UkLU-K
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Mottram, Eric (Eric Noel William), 1924-1995, former owner UkLU-K
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hoopla digital.
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Antiquities of Furness.
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| ISBN |
9781669314813 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1669314812 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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MWT14546205 |
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