Approaching the Serpentine, Hyde Park, London (original) (raw)
Approaching the Serpentine
Hyde Park
London
The water in the distance is the Serpentine, "a 40-acre artifical lake . . . formed by damming the West Borne, a stream that no longer exists" (Wurman, 72). Shelley's first wife, Harriet Westbook drowned herself here in 1818.