Price, Uvedale; Price, Uvedale [Bearb.]: An Essay On The Picturesque: As Compared With The Sublime And The Beautiful; And, On The Use Of Studying Pictures, For The Purpose Of Improving Real Landscape (Band 1) (London, 1796)

CONTENTS,

Chapter 1.

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1 h s reafons why an improver fliould ftudy pic-

tures as well as nature - - - - - i

Tne artift’s defigns in real fcenery muft neceflarily
change with the growth, decay, and various ac-
cidents of trees ; the only fixed and unchanging
compoutions are.in the defigns of painters - 8

Diftindfion between the painter and the improver- g
Between looking at pidhires merely with a re-
ference to other pi&ures, and ftudying them
wurh a view to the improvement of our ideas of
nature - - - - - - ir

The general principles of both arts the fame - 15

The prefent fyftem of improving, at variance with
thofe principles - - - - - 16

The manner in which a pidlure of Claude would
probabiy be improved by an admirer of Mr.
Brown - - - - - - -17

Chapter II.

Caufes of the negledf of the pidfurefque in modern
improvements - - - - "-25

Intricacy and variety, the chara&eriflics of the pic-
turefque ; monotony and baldnefs, of improved
places - -- -- - -26

A drefi'ed lane - ----- 28

A lane in its natural and pidturefque ftate - - 29

Near the houfe, picfturefque beauty muft often be
facrificed to neatnefs - - - "37

Different ways in which a pidlurefque lane might
probably be improved - - - 38

Examples 0f two lanes that have been improved - 41

Chap-