Remarks On Forest Scenery And Other Woodland Views; Related Chiefly To Picturesque Beauty; Illustrated By The Scenes Of New-Forest In Hampshire. In Three Books

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DESCRIPTION: Dark red leather spine with red cloth boards. Gilt border. Five ridged spine with gilt decoration and titles. Marbled endpapers. Tinted aquatints and soft-ground etchings Language: English. Book Condition: Fair: Wear to bruised corners, edges and spine ends. 1.5cm tear to upper rear spine edge. Crushed upper front corner. Rubbed boards. Rubbed spine with some tarnishing to gilt decorations and titles. Tightly bound with intact endpapers. Prev owners bookplate and sticker to front paste down. Toned and stained to endpapers. Toned rear pages. Smudges and marks to lower edges of prelims. Stained margins to tissue guards and reverse side of some plates DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages 303, xx. Size: 8vo 22cm by 14cm. AUTHOR: GILPIN, WILLIAM (Vicar of Boldre in the NewForest) William Gilpin (1724 - 1804) was an English artist, Church of England cleric, schoolmaster and author He is best known as a travel writer and as one of those who originated the idea of the picturesque Born in Cumberland From an early age he was an enthusiastic sketcher and collector of prints, but while his brother Sawrey Gilpin became a professional painter, William opted for a career in the church, graduating from Queens College, Oxford in 1748 While still at Oxford, Gilpin anonymously published A Dialogue upon the Gardens at Stow in Buckinghamshire (1748) Part guidebook to Stowe, part essay on aesthetics, it shows that Gilpin had already begun to develop his ideas on the picturesque In 1755 Gilpin became headmaster at Cheam School He was an enlightened educationalist, instituting a system of fines rather than corporal punishment and encouraging the boys to keep gardens and inschool shops Gilpin stayed at Cheam until 1777, when he moved with his wife Margaret to become Vicar of Boldre in the New Forest, Hampshire In 1768 Gilpin published a popular Essay on Prints, where he defined the picturesque as "that kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture" and began to expound his "principles of picturesque beauty", based largely on his knowledge of landscape painting Gilpin published Observations on the River Wye and several parts of South Wales, etc relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the summer of the year 1770 (London 1782) This was illustrated with plates based on Gilpins sketches, etched by his nephew William Sawrey Gilpin using the newly invented aquatint process There followed Observations on the Lake District and the West of England, and after his move to Boldre, Remarks on Forest Scenery, and other woodland Views (London, 1791). N° de ref. del artículo 8693

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