An Essay On Landscape Painting. With Remarks General And Critical, on The Different Schools And Masters, Ancient Or Modern. -

RA Collection: Book

Record number

07/2031

Imprint

London:: Printed For J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard., 1782.

Physical Description

vi, [7]-104 p.; 187 mm. (Octavo.)

Contents

[Half-t., t.p.] - To The Reader - Contents - [Text]; [colophon].

Responsibility Note

The anonymous author was the Revd. Joseph Holden Pott (1758-1847).

The printer is named in the colophon: 'London: Printed by C. Etherington, No. 3, Peterborough-Court, Fleet-Street.'

References

ESTC, T94179
M. Rosenthal, British landscape painting (1982).
L. Hawes, Presences of nature: British landscape 1780-1830 [exhibition catalogue] (1982).
L. Parris, Landscape in Britain c. 1750 - 1850 [exhibition catalogue](1973).
K. Clark, Landscape into art (1949).

Summary Note

The 'Contents' lists the text under the following headings: 1. 'Of the powers of painting in exciting pleasure'; 2. 'Of the different schools and their masters'; 3. 'Hints for forming the taste of an English school, with remarks on the landscape painters of this country'; 'General remarks on landscape painting'.

This anonymous publication appeared in the same year as W. Gilpin published his influential Observations on the river Wye and several parts of south Wales, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty.

Reproductions

A facsimile was published electronically in 2003 (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale). A microfilm version was published in 1983 (Woodbridge, CT; Research Publications).

Provenance

A preliminary leaf is inscribed in ink, 'Bequest of Sr. Augustus W. Callcott'.

Copy Note

Imperfect: lacks the half-title.

Binding Note

18th-century mottled calf; gilt-decorated spine, red morocco spine-label lettered 'Essay On Landsca Paintin'.

Subject

Painting - Landscapes (representations) - Theory - Great Britain - History - 18th century
Essays - Art criticism - Great Britain - 18th century

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