The work that launched the picturesque movement and changed our ways of looking at landscape forever. William Gilpin (1724-1804), cleric and educationalist, started travelling in search of picturesque scenes in the 1770's. His five books of journeys not only describe what he saw, but evaluate every [...]
This work, published in 1832, is an important treatise on picturesque landscape gardening and was highly regarded in its day.[...]