Alfred Wainwright, Landscape Low Fell Lake District, 20th Century, Ink Drawing

1 British Artwork Sketch Drawing Historic Landscape Low Fell Lake District by Alfred Wainwright Framed. Title “Low Fell Lake District” 1 British Artwork Sketch Drawing Historic Landscape Low Fell Lake District by Alfred Wainwright Framed. Title “Low Fell Lake District” By Alfred Wainwright. Subject landscape view of Low Fell in the Lake District Cumbria. Medium is pen & ink on paper back. Circa late 20th century 1980's. Set in a recent white and gold border mount with a recent Larson Juhl Baroque lacquer profile design moulding Radiata Pine frame with a front protective AR70 glass front cover. A rather nice display size with the frame being 52 cm wide and 47.2 cm high. Having breathtaking perspective, your focus is drawn to the beautiful Low Fell which is a fell in the English Lake District. It overlooks the lake of Loweswater to the south and to the north is bordered by its neighbour Fellbarrow. It is usually climbed from the villages of Loweswater or Thackthwaite. The fell is largely occupied by grassed enclosures, although there are some rocky outcrops near the top. Low Fell has fairly steep slopes to the south and east. Wainwright described the view from the lower southern top, noting that two cairns lower down the southern face gave better vantage points for the Loweswater Valley. from either summit, there are views to Grasmoor, across the Lorton Vale and down the Buttermerevalley in which you can see Crummock Water and Buttermere. Both tops are marked by cairns; the true summit top being on a small outcrop amid short fell grass and large rocks. In our opinion this is one of his beautiful rather detailed fine works. Signed in the bottom corner by the known British listed artist A Wainwright & title also inscribed on the opposite lower bottom front Low Fell. Artist Biography Alfred Wainwright MBE (17 January 1907 – 20 January 1991), who preferred to be known as A. Wainwright or A.W was a British fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator. His works have been exhibited & sold in Galleries & Auction Houses around the world. His seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, published between 1955 and 1966 and consisting entirely of reproductions of his manuscript, has become the standard reference work to 214 of the fells of the English Lake District. Among his 40-odd other books is the first guide to the Coast to Coast Walk, a 182-mile (293-kilometre) long-distance footpath devised by Wainwright which remains popular today. Alfred Wainwright was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, into a family which was relatively poor, mostly because of his stonemason father's alcoholism. He did well at school (first in nearly every subject) although he left at the age of 13. While most of his classmates were obliged to find employment in the local mills, Wainwright started work as an office boy in Blackburn Borough Engineer's Department. He spent several years studying at night school, gaining qualifications in accountancy which enabled him to further his career at Blackburn Borough Council. Even when a child Wainwright walked a great deal, up to 20 miles (32 kilometres) at a time; he showed a great interest in drawing and cartography, producing his own maps of England and his local area. In 1930, at the age of 23, Wainwright saved up for a week's walking holiday in the Lake District with his cousin Eric Beardsall. They arrived in Windermere and climbed the nearby Orrest Head, where Wainwright saw his first view of the Lakeland fells. This moment marked the start of what he later described as his love affair with the Lake District. In 1931 he married his first wife, Ruth Holden, a mill worker, with whom he had a son, Peter. In 1941 Wainwright moved closer to the fells when he took a job (and a pay cut) at the Borough Treasurer's office in Kendal, Westmorland. His first home in the town was 19 Castle Grove, which boasted a view of Kendal Castle from the front window. He lived and worked in the town for the rest of his life, serving as Borough Treasurer from 1948 until he retired in 1967. His first marriage ended when Ruth left three weeks before he retired (suspecting him of infidelity) and they divorced. In 1970 he married Betty McNally (1922–2008), a divorcée, who became his walking companion and who carried his ashes to Innominate Tarn at the top of Haystacks. Wainwright died in 1991 of a heart attack. Wainwright started work on the first page of his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells on 9 November 1952. He planned the precise scope and content of the seven volumes and worked conscientiously and meticulously on the series for the next 13 years at an average rate of one page per evening. Wainwright's Pictorial Guides have been in continuous publication since they were written and have sold more than two million copies. Although a number of more up-to-date guides are on the market, his books remain among the most popular for their depth, detail and unique style. His division of the Lake District into seven areas, and choice of fells. The 214 fells described in the Pictorial Guides are now generally known as the Wainwrights, and visiting them all is a common form of peak bagging. The Long Distance Walkers Association maintains a register of walkers who have completed the Wainwrights; as of 2013 there were 674 people on the list, of whom 40 had completed more than once. Provenance private shire collection from the vendor, Cumbria label. Highly sought after due to the collectible nature of honeypot scenic landscape subject matter such elaborate detail. with hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home wall display. We only select & sell paintings based upon subject, quality & significance.Condition report. Offered in fine used condition. Front surface is in very good overall order. Having some foxing staining in areas. The frame which has some imperfections with being handmade. Dimensions in centimetres of the frame High (47.2 cm) Wide (52 cm) Depth thickness of frame (5.5 cm) less