William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… Image Sawrey Gilpin, ‘Two Riders Conversing’, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, undated. Image Doctor Syntax, Rural sport (1 May 1812) by Thomas Rowlandson (1757 - 1827) … the headmaster tried to prepare his pupils for a sociable life and imagined a sociable life after death. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Animals Beauty Correspondence Death Education Nature Philanthropy Picturesque Religion … to qualify the image of the asocial theoretician of the picturesque. Even if he was not prone to socializing, which can partly be explained by the excesses of many male social gatherings which he denounces in some places, the headmaster still …
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