#derwent water

Derwent Water, with Skiddaw in the Distance

Artist: Joseph Wright of Derby (English, 1734–1797)

Date: 1795-1796

Medium: Oil on canvas

Morning! Happy Monday! 😀

This week is 'Lake District' week, and we're starting with some amazing light over Derwent Water, Keswick...

📸 by @garyholpinphoto

Fay Godwin’s land of hope: Britain’s scenic beauty

(English) Lake District scene: view from Latrigg Fell of Catbells and Derwent Water.

(Photo by Dave Massey)

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“I read that beauty has historically demanded replication. We make more of anything we find aesthetically pleasing, whether it’s a vase, a painting, a chalice, a poem. We reproduce it in order to keep it, extend it through space and time. To gaze at what pleases—a fresco, a peach-red mountain range, a boy, the mole on his jaw—is, in itself, replication—the image prolonged in the eye, making more of it, making it last. Staring into the mirror, I replicate myself into a future where I might not exist.”

The Mountain