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| Creator: | Prout, Samuel |
| Title: | Water mills / drawn and etched by Samuel Prout |
| Imprint: | London : T.Palser |
| Date: | 1812 |
| Format: | 4s.g.etch on 1 pl ; 290x430mm |
| Series: | S38. PROUT, Samuel: PICTURESQUE DELINEATIONS IN THE COUNTIES OF DEVON AND CORNWALL, IMITATED FROM THE ORIGINAL STUDIES. |
| Ref. no.: | SC3501 |
| Notes: | On 1 sheet with SC3499, SC3500 & SC3502 |
| Copies: |
WSL: Portfolio 15 |
| Coverage: | Devon . . Watermills . . Exterior . 1812 |
| Last Updated: |
20/12/2004 |
| Associated text: |
Everitt, The Rev. William (Editor). Devonshire scenery: its inspiration in the prose and song of various authors. Exeter: William Pollard, 1884. pp. 15-16. The Devonshire glen. "Who that has seen it does not retain in his mind, as a type of rural beauty, the picture of some sequestered Devonshire Glen; its stream gushing through narrow meadows of the richest emerald, now turning the wheels of the picturesque old mill, now chafing against a tiny barrier of rock, now sleeping in deep eddies under over-hanging groves of oak; its farms bosomed in orchards; its cottages half buried in the luxuriance of the flowering shrubs of their gardens; its precipitous-looking ploughed fields covering the hill-sides, at one time with their waving crops, at another with their rich red fallow?" [Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.] |