View of the Lake District
$375 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books
A stunning view of the Lake District, 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
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