The Lake Windermere looking to the Southward and across to the Ferry House / The Lake Windermere, Mr Curwen’s House on the South End of Belle Isle

One side of this sheet features a detailed pen-and-ink view of Lake Windermere with figures fishing in the foreground, inscribed ‘The Lake Windermere looking to the Southward and across to the Ferry House’. The other side of the sheet features another view of Lake Windermere, this time looking across from Bowness to the Island House on Belle Isle, inscribed ‘The Lake Windermere, Mr Curwen’s House on the South End of Belle Isle’. The drawing is the work of naval officer Aiskew Paffard Hollis (1764–1844). After his retirement of active service in 1821, Hollis lived at his estate at Highfield, near Southampton, and toured around various parts of England. He visited Lake Windermere at least once, in autumn 1840. For other examples of Hollis’s work, see PAH4885 and ZBB0352–84.