How did tourists and photographers invent the Lake District?
Photography was invented shortly before Wordsworth died. After his death some new editions of his poems were illustrated with photographs. These books influenced the itineraries of early tourists to the Lake District and the photographic souvenirs they took home. Tourists eventually started taking photos of their own, extending a photographic tradition that still shapes how we take pictures today.
This exhibition at the Wordsworth Trust was curated by Dr. Tom Mole and Tess Goodman from the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh.