Hints to form the taste & regulate ye judgment in sketching landscape.
Alternate Title(s):
Hints to form the taste and regulate ye judgment in sketching landscape
Published / Created:
Great Britain, circa 1790.
Physical Description:
1 v. (44 leaves, with blanks) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Information
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:9598038
Classification:
Archives & Manuscripts
Notes:
From 1768 to 1776, the writer and artist William Gilpin embarked on a series of excursions through Britain, recording his impressions in notebooks and later publishing them as picturesque tours, "in which writing and illustrations complement one another to sing the praises of nature" (Barbier, 1963, p. 41). In 1792 Gilpin authored Three essays: on picturesque beauty, on picturesque travel, and on sketching landscape ... (London : R. Blamire, 1792), the earliest theoretical treatment of the picturesque. For Gilpin, the picturesque emphasized "the essential ruggedness, roughness and deformity of a landscape, rather than its beauty: a notion that is historically important for its influence upon Romanticism. Gilpin's theory was developed in the 1790s by Uvedale Price, Richard Payne Knight and Humphry Repton." Cf. Grove Art.
Exhibition History:
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11)
Subject Terms:
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804. Three essays. | Oglander, John, Sir, 1585-1655. | Burleigh, Richard. | Landscape painting -- Early works to 1800. | Landscape painting -- Technique -- Early works to 1800. | Landscape drawing -- Early works to 1800. | Landscape drawing -- Technique -- Early works to 1800. | Picturesque, The -- Early works to 1800. | Color in art -- Technique. | Isle of Wight (England) -- History. | Paris, H. J. -- Bookplate. | Sewell, Robert -- Provenance. | Sewell, Elizabeth M. -- Provenance.
