Vale of Keswick Bassenthwaite Lake and River Greeta

by James Baker Pyne, W. Gauci

$375 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A stunning view of Keswick Water, from the deluxe portfolio edition of John Baker Pyne's magnificent work The English Lake District. The Lake District first came to the fore with the rise of the Romantic Movement during the second half of the eighteenth century. The poet William Wordsworth, a native of the district, established the area as the epitome of the ideal landscape, and artists and tourists alike visited the regions natural beauties in search of the Romantic ideal.

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