Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1772, on Several Parts of England 2 Volume Set
Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1772, on Several Parts of England 2 Volume Set
£48.00
GBPClergyman, schoolmaster and writer on aesthetics, William Gilpin (1724–1804) is best known for his works on the picturesque. In his Essay on Prints, published in 1768 and reissued in this series, he defined picturesque as 'a term expressive of that peculiar kind of beauty, which is agreeable in a picture'. First published in 1786, this two-volume work formed part of a successful series which recorded his reflections on the picturesque across British landscapes. It traces the journey he made in 1772, equipped with notebook and sketching materials, in the Lake District. Volume 1 includes discussion of Furness, Windermere and Keswick. Volume 2 covers parts of Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire as well as the Lakes. The volumes also feature reproductions of Gilpin's pen-and-wash drawings. Further exploring the concept of the picturesque, his volumes of Observations on other parts of Britain are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.
Product details
November 2013Multiple copy pack
9781108066914
630 pages
221 × 142 × 41 mm
0.81kg
27 b/w illus. 3 colour illus.
Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Preface
- 1. Great features of English landscape
- 2. Country around Hounslow
- 3. Country between Woodstock and Warwick
- 4. Country between Coventry and Birmingham
- 5. New-canal compared with a river
- 6. Analytical view of a mountain-country
- 7. General remarks on lakes
- 8. General remarks on fore-grounds
- 9. General remarks on the picturesque composition of lakes, and mountains
- 10. Ambleside, and the grounds around it
- 11. Voyage from the great island to the northern extremity of the lake
- 12. Furness-abbey decribed
- 13. General view of the lake of Keswick
- 14. Village of Satterthwait
- 15. Valley of Newlands. Volume 2:
- 16. Butermer lower lake
- 17. Druid temple
- 18. Description of a gill, or ravine
- 19. Description of Ulleswater
- 20. City of Carlisle
- 21. Description of Brugh-marsh
- 22. Netherby
- 23. Vale of Lowther
- 24. Observations on a formal piece of ground near Brugh
- 25. Studley
- 26. Hackfall
- 27. Rippon
- 28. General description of the peak of Derbyshire
- 29. Description of Dovedale
- 30. Keddleston
- 31. Country about Leicester
- 32. Country about Northampton
- Explanation of the prints.
