Author: Andrews, Malcolm
Title: The Search for the Picturesque : Landscape Aesthetics and Tourism in Britain, 1760-1800
Description: Stanford, Calif, Stanford University Press, 1989. Softcover. Illustrated wrap cover. (xvi), 269 pages : illustrations. Includes index./ Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247). Contents as follows: I: The rise of the Picturesque -- Poetry and the discovery of British landscape -- Landscape painting and the Picturesque formulae -- The evolution of Picturesque taste, 1750-1800 -- Travelling 'knick-knacks' -- II: The Picturesque tours -- The Wye Valley tour: river scenery and ruins -- The North Wales tour: mountains and bards -- The tour to the Lakes -- The Highlands tour and the Ossianic sublime. G+, covers show wear, foxing bottom edge, pages clean and tight .

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