An Essay On Landscape Painting. With Remarks General And Critical, on The Different Schools And Masters, Ancient Or Modern. -
RA Collection: Book
Record number
07/2031
Imprint
London:: Printed For J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard., 1782.
Physical Description
vi, [7]-104 p.; 187 mm. (Octavo.)
Contents
[Half-t., t.p.] - To The Reader - Contents - [Text]; [colophon].
Responsibility Note
The anonymous author was the Revd. Joseph Holden Pott (1758-1847).
The printer is named in the colophon: 'London: Printed by C. Etherington, No. 3, Peterborough-Court, Fleet-Street.'
References
ESTC, T94179
M. Rosenthal, British landscape painting (1982).
L. Hawes, Presences of nature: British landscape 1780-1830 [exhibition catalogue] (1982).
L. Parris, Landscape in Britain c. 1750 - 1850 [exhibition catalogue](1973).
K. Clark, Landscape into art (1949).
Summary Note
The 'Contents' lists the text under the following headings: 1. 'Of the powers of painting in exciting pleasure'; 2. 'Of the different schools and their masters'; 3. 'Hints for forming the taste of an English school, with remarks on the landscape painters of this country'; 'General remarks on landscape painting'.
This anonymous publication appeared in the same year as W. Gilpin published his influential Observations on the river Wye and several parts of south Wales, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty.
Reproductions
A facsimile was published electronically in 2003 (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale). A microfilm version was published in 1983 (Woodbridge, CT; Research Publications).
Provenance
A preliminary leaf is inscribed in ink, 'Bequest of Sr. Augustus W. Callcott'.
Copy Note
Imperfect: lacks the half-title.
Binding Note
18th-century mottled calf; gilt-decorated spine, red morocco spine-label lettered 'Essay On Landsca Paintin'.
Subject
Painting - Landscapes (representations) - Theory - Great Britain - History - 18th century
Essays - Art criticism - Great Britain - 18th century