Author: Gilpin, William.
Title: REMARKS ON FOREST SCENERY, And Other Woodland Views, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty Illustrated by the Scenes of New Forest in Hampshire. In Three Books.
Description: London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ..., 1808. 3rd Ed. 2 vols. in 1. xv + 344pp. + Title page + 362pp. 32 sepia/tinted aquatint plates including folding map. Light age toning, sm. label removal from modern f.e.p., rebound in C20th gilt rule edged fawn half calf with blue/green boards, gilt motifs and gilt lettered labels to sl. sunned spine, minor marking sm. dent to fore-edge of upper board. ¶ Abbey Scenery 149 (First Edition); Prideaux p.337 (First Edition); Upcott 302 (2nd Edition). William Gilpin (1724–1804) English artist, Church of England cleric, schoolmaster and author. Gilpin travelled widely in Britain, with his notebook and sketching materials, in order to identify locations which offered that particular kind of beauty in landscape 'which is agreeable in a picture'. Picturesque tourism constituted 'a new object of pursuit', as he wrote the practice recommended was 'that of not merely describing; but of adapting the description of natural scenery to the principles of artificial landscape'.

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