Grandy Nook, Hawkshead, 1895 by Alfred Heaton Cooper (1863 - 1929)

Grandy Nook, Hawkshead, 1895 by Alfred Heaton Cooper (1863 - 1929)This intriguing glimpse peering down a wet street corner was painted in 1895 during an early visit to the Lakes, Alfred must have been fascinated by the warren of little labyrinthine streets found in the small ancient market town of Hawkshead. Wordsworth (himself once a schoolboy in Hawkshead) supposed that white should be a natural colour for rural residencies due to the air of cleanliness and neatness given off, but that it destroyed the shifts in

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