Farington, Joseph

Cumberland's ports, lakes and mountain passes fill these prints by Joseph Farington (1747–1821), landscape painter, Royal Ac...

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Cumberland's ports, lakes and mountain passes fill these prints by Joseph Farington (1747–1821), landscape painter, Royal Academician and diarist. Dated 1816, they come from the Cumberland volume of the Lysons brothers' Magna Britannia, with engravers including Letitia Byrne. Carlisle, Whitehaven, Workington and Maryport provide town and coastal panoramas, and Derwentwater, Ullswater, Thirlmere and Buttermere lead into the Lake District, with the Bowder Stone in Borrowdale, Honister Crag and the road from Keswick as particular viewpoints. Farington's picturesque eye serves a county survey, so castles and market towns sit beside the scenery.

Cumberland's ports, lakes and mountain passes fill these prints by Joseph Farington (1747–1821), landscape painter, Royal Academician and diarist. Dated 1816, they come from the Cumberland volume of the Lysons brothers' Magna Britannia, with engravers including Letitia Byrne. Carlisle, Whitehaven, Workington and Maryport provide town and coastal panoramas, and Derwentwater, Ullswater, Thirlmere and Buttermere lead into the Lake District, with the Bowder Stone in Borrowdale, Honister Crag and the road from Keswick as particular viewpoints. Farington's picturesque eye serves a county survey, so castles and market towns sit beside the scenery.

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