Lot 1: WILLIAM GREEN OF AMBLESIDE (BRITISH, 1760-1823) - LAKE DISTRICT LANSCAPE NEAR BORROWDALE

WILLIAM GREEN OF AMBLESIDE (BRITISH, 1760-1823)
LAKE DISTRICT LANSCAPE NEAR BORROWDALE
signed on old backboard: W.Green; watercolour (unframed)
25.5cm x 38 cm; 10in x 15 in
Green settled in the Lake District just after 1800 and is generally regarded as one of the first artists to make a comprehensive and accurate topographical survey of the area. The result was his major 1819 work The Tourists' New Guide to the Lake District, based on the numerous watercolours and drawings he made over the previous two decades. At his death in 1823 his epitaph was written by his friend the poet William Wordsworth.