Ullswater
Ullswater
William Green (1760-1823)
View of Ullswater, Lake District
Inscribed on mount: W.m Green/Ulls Water/near Ambleside
Watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour
14.5 by 20.2 cm., 5 ¾ by 8 in.
Provenance:
Private Collection, UK
This relates to no.22 in an untitled publication of 60 aquatints all dated 1st June 1815 (see Peter Bicknell, Picturesque Scenery of the Lake District 1752-1855, 1990, no.68). An advertisement on the cover of The Tourist's New Guide, published in 1819, refers to this set of prints: `The…. Sixty Plates are all new subjects…. And attempt to display in miniature the grandeur and vastness of the most stupendous English scenery.'