Three essays : On picturesque beauty, On picturesque travel, and On sketching landscape : to which is added a poem, On landscape painting / by William Gilpin ...
Alternate Title(s):
Essays on picturesque beauty
Published / Created:
London : Printed for R. Blamire, 1792.
Physical Description:
[4], iii, [1], viii, 88, v, [3], 44 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Books
Notes:
Half-title: Essays, on picturesque beauty; &c. &c. &c.The poem has divisional title and separate pagination and register.The plates are unsigned and without titles or imprints.Includes errata, p. iii, and a tipped in errata slip at p. 85.English short title catalogue, T99007Prideaux, S.T. Aquatint engraving, p. 337Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 129BAC: British Art Center copy ND1340 G5 is the Abbey copy.BAC: British Art Center copy DA620 .G47 1792 is bound with the author's Observations on the river Wye. 3d ed. London, 1792. Imperfect: half-title wanting. "Explanation of the prints", iii p., bound in after the text.
Subject Terms:
Landscape painting -- Early works to 1800. | Landscape drawing -- Early works to 1800. | Picturesque, The -- Early works to 1800. | Blamire, R. -- Publisher.