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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 April 2014
    06 May 2013
    ISBN:
    9781139506861
    9781108055642
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139506861
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    Dimensions:
    (244 x 170 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.43kg, 264 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Plant Sciences, Life Sciences, Art, Natural Resource Management, Agriculture, Horticulture and forestry, Applied Arts
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
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    Subjects:
    Plant Sciences, Life Sciences, Art, Natural Resource Management, Agriculture, Horticulture and forestry, Applied Arts
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
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    William Sawrey Gilpin (1761/2–1843), landscape painter and illustrator, later became a landscape gardener and writer. He set himself up as a drawing master in Paddington Green and also illustrated picturesque travel-writing. Between 1804 and 1806 he was the first president of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, and then the third drawing master at the Royal Military College in Marlow. After being discharged from this post, Gilpin became a successful landscape gardener and advisor to the nobility. His approach to landscape gardening was influenced by painting and Sir Uvedale Price's Essay on the Picturesque (1794). Gilpin's Hints, published in 1832, advocates that landscapes should be improved by the 'taste' of a painter's eye, and artificial buildings united with their surroundings. Like his landscape practice, this book was highly regarded by Gilpin's contemporaries for its emphasis on the picturesque, especially when landscape gardening centred upon the introduction of exotic plants.

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