Practical hints upon landscape gardening: with some remarks on domestic architecture, as connected with scenery
Auteur :
Gilpin, William S.
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781108055642
Date de publication :
6 mai 2013
Dimensions :
24,4 x 17,0 x 1,4 cm
Poids :
430 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
William Sawrey Gilpin (1761/2–1843), landscape painter and illustrator, later became a landscape gardener and writer. His Hints, published in 1832, advocated landscapes improved by the 'taste' of a painter's eye, and is informed by Sir Uvedale Price's Essay on the Picturesque (1794). It was highly regarded in nineteenth-century Britain.