LOT 137 WILLIAM GILPIN (BRITISH 1724-1804), EIGHT CAPRICCIO LANDSCAP...
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材质:Pencil, pen and brown ink, brown, ochre and grey washWILLIAM GILPIN (BRITISH 1724-1804)EIGHT CAPRICCIO LANDSCAPE STUDIESPencil, pen and brown ink, brown, ochre and grey washAll with dry stamp 'WG' (lower left)16.5 x 23.7cm (6¼ x 9¼ in.) oval (8)Provenance:With William Drummond, LondonGilpin was a Clergyman, Schoolmaster and Artists and is best remembered as one of the originators of the idea of the picturesque. In his 1768 Essay on Prints he defined the picturesque as 'that kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture', and during the following two decades he travelled extensively, committing his thoughts and spontaneous sketches to notebooks. He began to expound his principles of picturesque beauty and circulated the manuscripts of his tour journal to his friends including Thomas Gray, Horace Walpole and King George III. In 1782 he published Observations on the River Wye.. which was illustrated with aquantints of his sketches, similar to the present lot.
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