1859 - ‘The tourist will at once recognise the poetic truth of this…scene’
The tinted chromolithograph here of James Barker Pyne’s painting of ‘Grasmere from Loughrigg Fell’ presents a visual interpretation of Wordsworth’s concept of ‘tranquil sublimity’ - that endless variety of aspect and natural harmony of colour that forms the leading attraction of the Lakes. As the text explains, ‘A quiet of evening is finely embodied; the descending sun is shedding its beams in slanting rays; night is creeping through the valleys and “about the ditches;” black shadows clothe the mountains’ sides’.
All this so that ‘the tourist will recognise the poetic truth of this rendering of the scene’.