A Tour of the English Lakes: With Thomas Gray and Joseph Farington Ra

by John R. Murray

Book Overview

In 1769 Thomas Gray (best known for his 'Elegy in a Country Chuchyard') made a tour of the English Lakes, and recorded it in a journal that is now widely accepted as the first example of modern travel writing. He delighted in what he saw and conveys vividly to us the lakes and the mountains through eighteenth-century eyes. A few years later the watercolourist Joseph Farington followed in Gray's footsteps and painted a series of key views along the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0711232687
• ISBN13: 9780711232686
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.5" x 11.3"