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What Landscape Means to Me

What Landscape Means to Me l a n d s c a p e s (2011), 2, pp. 84–94 © Stephen Daniels Stephen Daniels ‘Everything begins with the fact of the river, the Lea and its tributaries’ Iain Sinclair, Ghost Milk (2011) A while ago I was leafing through a familiar catalogue of British landscape art (British Museum 1985) when one image struck me almost viscerally with the shock of recognition, though I’d never noticed it before. It showed a place I once knew intimately, had largely forgotten and never expected to see in a work of art. Valley of the River Lea (Figure 1) a watercolour of 1814 by John Linnell, depicts a landscape that I walked as a child in the mid 1950s. Despite the evident changes over two centuries, the picture seemed precisely to represent what I saw then. On day-long summer rambles that I took with friends in our street, in the town of Ware, walking past my father’s allotment, over riverside meadows, through fields and woods. This was at a period when parents gave young children more right to roam than they do now, or rather wanted them out of the house and didn’t expect to see them until http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscapes Taylor & Francis

What Landscape Means to Me

Daniels, Stephen
Landscapes , Volume 12 (2): 11 – Dec 1, 2011
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2011 Maney Publishing
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2040-8153
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1466-2035
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10.1179/lan.2011.12.2.84
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l a n d s c a p e s (2011), 2, pp. 84–94 © Stephen Daniels Stephen Daniels ‘Everything begins with the fact of the river, the Lea and its tributaries’ Iain Sinclair, Ghost Milk (2011) A while ago I was leafing through a familiar catalogue of British landscape art (British Museum 1985) when one image struck me almost viscerally with the shock of recognition, though I’d never noticed it before. It showed a place I once knew intimately, had largely forgotten and never expected to see in a work of art. Valley of the River Lea (Figure 1) a watercolour of 1814 by John Linnell, depicts a landscape that I walked as a child in the mid 1950s. Despite the evident changes over two centuries, the picture seemed precisely to represent what I saw then. On day-long summer rambles that I took with friends in our street, in the town of Ware, walking past my father’s allotment, over riverside meadows, through fields and woods. This was at a period when parents gave young children more right to roam than they do now, or rather wanted them out of the house and didn’t expect to see them until

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Published: Dec 1, 2011

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