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Price, Uvedale; Price, Uvedale [Oth.]
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

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Chapter III.

Page

General meaning of the word pi&urefque - - 46

Mr. Gilpin’s definitions of it examined - "47

It has not an exclufive reference to painting - - 48

The beautiful and the fubiime have been pointed
out and illuftrated by painting as well as the pic-
turefque - - - - - 49

Apology for making ufe of the word pi£turefquenefs - 51
The pidturefque as diftindt a charadter as either the
fublime, or the beautiful - -- - "53

,The pidturefque arifes from qualities dire<5tly oppo-
fite to thofe of beauty - - - "59

What thofe qualities are - - - 60

Pidturefque and beautiful in buildings - - 62

Ditto

-

in water

« 67

Ditto

-

in trees ...

- 69

Ditto

.

in animals

- 7 1

Ditto

-

in birds -

- 73

Ditto

.

in men ...

- 76

Ditto

.

in the higher order

of



beingS

- ibidm

Ditto

-

in painting

- 77


Chapter IV.


General diftidtions between the pi£turefque and the

beautiful - 82

Ditto - between the pidturefque

and the fublime - 99

The manner in which they operate on the mind - 103

Of terror, as the caufe of the fublime - - - 109

Chapter V.

To create the fublime above our contradted
powers.—The art of improving therefore de-
pends on the beautiful and the pidturefque - 123

Beauty
 
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