Essays on the Picturesque, as Compared With the Sublime and the Beautiful: And, on the Use of Studying Pictures, for the Purpose of Improving Real Landscape

by Sir Uvedale Price (Creator)

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Genres: Science

454 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1796

Reviews

[Andragel · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think it started strong on the subject I'm interested in but then got progressively worse. Rather than dwelling in major aesthetic categories, he resorted to settle feuds with other researchers by examining belts and clumps of trees up to their bark. This didn't help - at all.