William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… in the 1780s and 1790s in several essays of ‘observations’. The satirical accounts that were afterwards made of his travels and cartooned by Rowlandson show the clergyman, Dr Syntax, at several social gatherings, putting in at inns, … the first page of his 1770 Observations on the River Wye, and several parts of South Wales (first printed in 1782): We travel for various purposes —to explore the culture of soils — to view the curiosities of art — to survey the beauties of …
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