jan 1, 1782 - William 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"
Description:
- origins of the 'picturesque'
- instructed England’s leisured travellers to examine “the face of a country by the rules of picturesque beauty”
- part of the emerging Romantic sensibility
CF: 1882 - "On Picturesque Beauty"
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