WILLIAM GILPIN (BRITISH 1724-1804) EIGHT CAPRICCIO LANDSCAPE STUDIES Pencil, pen and brown ink, brown, ochre and grey wash All with dry stamp 'WG' (lower left) 16.5 x 23.7cm (6¼ x 9¼ in.) oval (8) Provenance: With William Drummond London Gilpin was a clergyman, schoolmaster and artist, and is best remembered as one of the originators of the idea of the picturesque. In his 1768, Essay on Prints he defined the picturesque as 'that kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture', and during the following two decades he travelled extensively, committing his thoughts and spontaneous sketches to notebooks. He began to expound his "principles of picturesque beauty" and circulated the manuscripts of his tour journal to his friends including Thomas Gray, Horace Walpole and King George III. In 1782, he published Observations on the River Wye.. which was illustrated with aquatints of his sketches, similar to the present lot.
WILLIAM GILPIN (BRITISH 1724-1804) EIGHT CAPRICCIO LANDSCAPE STUDIES Pencil, pen and brown ink, brown, ochre and grey wash All with dry stamp 'WG' (lower left) 16.5 x 23.7cm (6¼ x 9¼ in.) oval (8) Provenance: With William Drummond London Gilpin was a clergyman, schoolmaster and artist, and is best remembered as one of the originators of the idea of the picturesque. In his 1768, Essay on Prints he defined the picturesque as 'that kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture', and during the following two decades he travelled extensively, committing his thoughts and spontaneous sketches to notebooks. He began to expound his "principles of picturesque beauty" and circulated the manuscripts of his tour journal to his friends including Thomas Gray, Horace Walpole and King George III. In 1782, he published Observations on the River Wye.. which was illustrated with aquatints of his sketches, similar to the present lot.
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