Ingsdon House (1817)

Croydon, Edward. Guide to watering places on the coast between the Exe and the Dart, including Teignmouth, Dawlish and Torquay. Teignmouth: E. Croydon, 1817. pp. 63 - 64. CHUDLEIGH ROCK,Overlooking and bordering the fine wooded grounds of Ugbrook and adjoining the town, affords one of the most beautiful panoramic views in the kingdom. […]. Having attained its summit, a beautiful richly clothed landscape presents itself, beneath a rippling stream, meandring (sic) through the stony fragments driven down by the tempest, or carried by the torrent to its bed, glides to the opposite bank shaded with trees, and displays a dark contrast to the bright open pasture of the meadow laying beneath the rock, called the battery; […]. You slightly glimpse the arch of the find new bridge over the Teign, imbosomed in tufts of wood: beyond which is Stokelake house, seated on a rising knoll; behind it are the Hennock hills, to the right, looking up the river, you have a view of that fine old mansion of Canonteign, the property of the Right Honorable Lord Viscount Exmouth; terminating the vale down which the Teign flows, sheltered by the Doddiscombe hills; to the left, the dark heath of Bovey Heathfield, Stover Lodge, the seat of George Templer, Esq. and Ingsdon House, the residence of Dr. Curtis; also, in the distance, the high tors of Dartmoor, where Haytor rock proudly lifts its towering crags.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]

Aquatint

99x156mm