A Guide to the Lakes - Thomas West
Thomas West
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Author: Thomas West
Added: 20-12-2022, 07:00
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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 Westβs A guide to the Lakes (1778). Westβs predecessors β Thomas Gray, Arthur Young, Thomas Pennant and William Hutchinson βhad 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 β a convex, tinted mirror in which the landscape appears as it might in a painting by Lorrain β West follows and improves upon Grayβs technique of identifying βstationsβ from which the landscape would appear at its most picturesque. Westβs guide remains something of a hybrid, however, with its lengthy antiquarian descriptions of the surrounding towns of Lancaster, Penrith and Kendal. - Summary by Phil Benson
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