William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… 1812) by Thomas Rowlandson (1757 - 1827) taken from [W. Combe], The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, London 1812, pl.20. Image Henry Walton, 'William Gilpin', © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 4418, 1781. Abstract William Gilpin’s name is commonly associated with the notion of the picturesque. If his … his posterity … together with an account of the author, by himself: and a pedigree of the Gilpin family, ed. W. Jackson (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1879), p. 147-148. An unsociable relative and friend William Gilpin’s letters to his son and …
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