Romanticism & The Lake District: The Contradictions of Modern Life

Jaclyn November 12, 2020

By Lewis Waller
After the first travel guide to Britain was published in 1772, Thomas West, a Scottish Jesuit, published his own guide to the English Lake District. West, one of the first writers of a new Picturesque Movement, guided the traveller to ‘viewing stations’ that rewarded the most balanced, scenic, and picturesque – a new word for the time - points of view. Painters and sketchers would use these guides to produce quick works for the newly monied bourgeois class.
Aristocratic Englishmen were, of course, supposed to be explorers, adventurers, and colonisers, but ‘The Grand Tour’ - a r...

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