Observations on the River Wye
- 96 pages
- 4 hours of reading
The work that launched the picturesque movement and changed our ways of looking at landscape forever. A witty, elegant, opinionated pilgrimage of taste.
William Gilpin Books
William Gilpin, an English artist and cleric, is renowned for originating the concept of the picturesque. He defined picturesque beauty as 'that kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture.' Gilpin developed principles for this aesthetic, largely informed by landscape painting, and applied them to the natural world during his extensive travels. His insights, captured through notes and sketches, profoundly influenced the appreciation of landscape aesthetics.