The search for the picturesque : landscape aesthetics and tourism in Britain, 1760-1800 /
Malcolm Andrews.
- xvi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) and index.
I: The rise of the Picturesque -- Poetry and the discovery of British landscape -- Landscape painting and the Picturesque formulae -- The evolution of Picturesque taste, 1750-1800 -- Travelling 'knick-knacks' -- II: The Picturesque tours -- The Wye Valley tour: river scenery and ruins -- The North Wales tour: mountains and bards -- The tour to the Lakes -- The Highlands tour and the Ossianic sublime.
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Travelers--History--Great Britain--18th century. Landscapes--History--Great Britain--18th century. British--Travel--History--18th century. Aesthetics, British--18th century Picturesque, The Landscapes in art