Dartmouth Castle ([1826?])

George Rowe
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Devon West Country Studies M SC0515
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SC0515
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Publication Details
Date
[1826?]
Place
Scope and Content
Ward and Lock's pictorial and historical guide to South Devon. London and New York: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1888. p. 65.Should the weather be fine, and especially if we happen to reach the spot during the regatta week (for the harbour is quite a rendezvous for yachtsmen), when the river is crowded with pleasure craft, decked from stem to stern with bunting, we shall at once feel the force of Queen Victoria's epithet, "beautiful Dartmouth." Her Majesty had neither of the above advantages, having been obliged to put into the harbour, when on her way to Plymouth in 1846, by stress of weather, as she informs us in her diary:-"It was thought best to give up Plymouth, and to put into that beautiful Dartmouth; and we accordingly did so, in pouring rain, the deck swimming with water, and all of us with umbrellas, the children being most anxious to see everything. Nothwithstanding the rain, this place is lovely, with its wooded rocks and church and castle at the entrance. It puts me so much in mind of the beautiful Rhine, and its five castles, and the Lurlei."[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
Format
Lithograph
Dimensions
150x201mm
Aspects
Exterior
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Dates
1826