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Practical Hints upon Landscape Gardening: With Some Remarks On Domestic Architecture, As Connected With Scenery (Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture) - Softcover

Gilpin, William S.

 
9781108055642: Practical Hints upon Landscape Gardening: With Some Remarks On Domestic Architecture, As Connected With Scenery (Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture)

Synopsis

This work, published in 1832, is an important treatise on picturesque landscape gardening and was highly regarded in its day.

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Book Description

William Sawrey Gilpin (1761/2–1843), landscape painter and illustrator, later became a landscape gardener and writer. His Hints, published in 1832, advocated landscapes improved by the 'taste' of a painter's eye, and is informed by Sir Uvedale Price's Essay on the Picturesque (1794). It was highly regarded in nineteenth-century Britain.

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