Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty; On Picturesque Travel; And on Sketching Landscape: With a Poem, on Landscape Painting (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Three Essays, on Picturesque Beauty, on Picturesque Travel, and on Sketching Landscape: With a Poem, on Landscape Painting; To These Are Now Added Two Essays, Giving an Account of the Principles and Mode in Which the Author Executed His Own DrawingsIn the year 1802, and in a fubfequent one, Mr. Gilpin prepared a number of drawings for fale, the produce of his own pencil, for the endowment of a fchool for the benefit of the day labouring part of the parifhioners of Boldre, and affixed the two Effays to the fale catalogues, for which they were particularly written. It is to thefe fales that remarks in the Efiays fo fre quently refer. It was at firft intended to'omit.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.