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Water mills
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.
Edinburgh Review, xciii, 71.

"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.]




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