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stepping stones, Grasmere
site name:-   Easedale Beck
locality:-   Goody Bridge
locality:-   Grasmere
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   stepping stones
coordinates:-   NY33160800
1Km square:-   NY3308
10Km square:-   NY30
evidence:-   old print:- Green 1810 (plate 25) 
item:-  artist's licence
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Goody Bridge in Grasmere, the house, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1808.
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A note with a similar print by William Green admits that he has moved the stepping stones nearer the house. 
Plate 25 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. 
printed at top right:-  "25"
printed at bottom:-  "GOODY BRIDGE IN GRASMERE. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1808."
watermark:-  "J WHATMAN / 1813"
item:-  Armitt Library : A6641.25
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 23) 
source data:-   Print, tinted soft ground etching, Goody Bridge house, Grasmere, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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and stepping stones across the Easedale Beck. 
Plate 23 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "23"
printed at bottom:-  "GOODY BRIDGE. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6653.23
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 23) 
source data:-   Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Goody Bridge house, Grasmere, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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GN0923.jpg
and stepping stones across the Easedale Beck. 
Plate 23 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "23"
printed at bottom:-  "GOODY BRIDGE. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6656.23
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old text:- Green 1814
item:-  artist's licence
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
image GN09p13, button  goto source
page 13:-  "No.23."
"GOODY BRIDGE."
"The buildings [Goody Bridge] in this scene are called by the name of a stone bridge which is down the river, ... To improve the composition, the stepping stones have been brought nearer the houses than they actually are. ..."
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