Padden’s Pictorial Map of Westmorland Publisher(s)_Gieseke & Devrient with distinctive original English hand-colour

with distinctive original English hand-colour

original hand colour

Kelpra Studio number 'K721' stamped on the verso

lacks final blank (b4)

A major revision took place in 1588

Padden’s Pictorial Map of Westmorland Publisher(s)_Gieseke & Devrient with distinctive original English hand-colourIf 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