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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Title(s):
Three essays : On picturesque beauty, On picturesque travel, and On sketching landscape : to which is added a poem, On landscape painting / by William Gilpin ...
Additional 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.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
ND1340 G5
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DA620 G47 1792
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
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, T99007
Prideaux, S.T. Aquatint engraving, p. 337
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 129
BAC: 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:
Blamire, R. -- Publisher.
Landscape drawing -- Early works to 1800.
Landscape painting -- Early works to 1800.
Picturesque, The -- Early works to 1800.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- 1792.
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1792.
Contributors:
Faber Birren Collection (Yale University)
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