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Title: Three essays : On picturesque beauty; On picturesque travel; and On sketching landscape : with a poem, on landscape painting. To these are now added two essays, giving an account of the principles and mode in which the author executed his own drawings.
Year: 1808 (1800s)
Authors: Gilpin, William, 1724-1804 Loewy, Benno, 1854-1919. fmo Wordsworth Collection
Subjects: Landscape painting Landscape drawing
Publisher: London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ...
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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