William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… beauty.' While little material is available about William Gilpin’s sociable connexions and activities, his aesthetic essays, his autobiographical writings and letters help to qualify the image of the asocial theoretician of the … at home (Gilpin, William writes to William , 2, 8, 24, 44) to his concern for the publication and reception of his essays on picturesque beauty. 7 7 . Bodleian Library, Ms. Eng. Let. 6. 27, 43, 49, 51 A socializing holiday-maker? In … of Scotland in 1776), for which he accounted in his notebooks, which were published in the 1780s and 1790s in several essays of ‘observations’. The satirical accounts that were afterwards made of his travels and cartooned by Rowlandson …
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