Padden’s Pictorial Map of Westmorland Publisher(s)_Gieseke & Devrient Kelpra Studio number 'K721' stamped

Kelpra Studio number 'K721' stamped on the verso

William Hughes and Abraham John Mason after William Harvey

Carte de la Guerre de la Crimèe

with distinctive original English hand-colour

the first sheets were published in 1793

Padden’s Pictorial Map of Westmorland Publisher(s)_Gieseke & Devrient Kelpra Studio number 'K721' stampedIf thou art worn and hard beset with sorrows that thou wouldst forget Go to the woods and hills; no tears dim the sweet look that nature wears. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, quoted at the head of this map, made an early celebrity tour of the Lake District in 1868 69. Like any tour of 'Wordsworthshire' it included visits to sites illustrated here by Padden, such as Ullswater, Grasmere and the environs of Dove Cottage. The map emphasises the landscape and