Landscape with Hills and a Lake, 18th century, Pen and black ink with gray wash on buff paper, Sheet: 10 3/8 x 14 1/8 in. (26.4 x 35.9 cm), Drawings, William Gilpin (British, Scaleby, Cumbria 1724–1804 Boldre, Hampshire), Gilpin's ideas concering 'the picturesque' are here demonstrated using monochrome ink washes. While working as the enlightened head of a boys's school, then vicar at Boldre in the New Forest from 1777, Gilpin wrote essays that defined this new aesthetic concept associated with pleasingly irregular forms situated between beauty and sublimity
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Landscape, Hills, Lake, 18th century, Pen, black ink, gray wash, buff paper, Sheet, 10 3/8 x 14 1/8, 26.4 35.9 cm, Drawings, William Gilpin, British, Scaleby, Cumbria, 1724–1804, Boldre, Hampshire, Gilpin, ideas concering, picturesque, demonstrated using monochrome, ink, washes, working, enlightened head, boys, school, vicar, New Forest, 1777, Gilpin wrote, essays, defined, new aesthetic, concept, associated, pleasingly irregular, forms, situated, beauty, sublimity
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