Leathes Water, Lake District

Leathes Water, Lake District

Category
Reference

2710

William Green (1760-1823)
Leathes Water, Cumbria

Watercolour
12.7 by 19.2 cm., 5 by 7 1/2 in.

Provenance:
with the Lyver and Boydell Galleries, Liverpool

Leathers Water also known as Wythburn Water and Thirlmere was a small lake in Wythburndale which became part of the new reservoir of Thirlmere created in the 1880s. An aquatint taken from this viewpoint by Green was published on 24th June 1804.