Barbier Carl Paul: William Gilpin, His Drawings, Teaching and Theory of The Picturesque. , U. K. Oxford at The Clarendon Press, 1963

First Edition H. B. Navy cloth with spine title in bright gilt lettering. 196 p. p. text 16 full page monochrome illustrations at back, lake scenery, rocky landscape, Entrance to cave, Ideal Landscape etc. etc. 28.5 x 22 cms. "This study deals with the artistic activity of the man who more than anyone else helped to shape the picturesque ideal to which the man of taste subscribed in eighteenth century England. The author considers in turn Gilpin's considerable output as an amateur artist, his active role as a drawing maste,and his development as a critic of prints, paintings, and landscape. leading to an analysis of his theory of the Picturesque, a theory more varied and complex than had been supposed from a man whose taste was far more austere and uncompromising than that of many of his contemporaries. A fine copy in a Fine jacket with original price. (Book ref. 2230 )  £ 120.00

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