Buttermere Lake from the Meadows

Title: Buttermere Lake from the Meadows
LC Subject: Lakes--England Mountains--England Agriculture
Description: "Here is another view of Buttermere Lake. One who has often visited this region and has seen Buttermere from almost every point of view says of it and its surroundings: 'Like a soft slab of slate the lake stretched from the fringe of tree-tops before to the stony scrubby hillside opposite. Save where coots and waterhens played by the sedges and rooty river mouths, the surface was calm. The light rain merged into the water without splash or circle. The hillsides are furrowed into ravines; dark and gaping they split the festive green swathes of summer tide. Down these hollows dash lively rivulets playing hide-and-seek, mazily threading through shadow of alder and rowan, by groves of flowering hawthorns, now lost in the depths of a gill (gorge), now spouting in lively haste over a ledge curtained with fern and bracken.' It is a rare pleasure to visit Buttermere, especially just after a rainstorm."
Work Type: lantern slides
Location: Lake District >> England >> United Kingdom Buttermere >> Cumbria >> England >> United Kingdom
Date: 1900/1940
Identifier: P217:03:68
Rights: In Copyright
Rights Holder: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Local Collection Name: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides, 1900-1940 (P 217)
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center Oregon Explorer
Primary Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Is Part Of: Set 5 - English Lake District Oregon Explorer: Land Use Explorer Oregon Explorer: Rural Communities Explorer
Institution: Oregon State University
Modified: 2015-02-24
Submission Date: 2009-10-28