Landscape with Hills and a Lake, William Gilpin, 18th century

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Landscape with Hills and a Lake, 18th century, Pen and black ink with gray wash on buff paper, Sheet: 10 3/8 x 14 1/8 in. ( x cm), Drawings, William Gilpin (British, Scaleby, Cumbria 1724–1804 Boldre, Hampshire), Gilpin's ideas concering 'the picturesque' are here demonstrated using monochrome ink washes. While working as the enlightened head of a boys's school, then vicar at Boldre in the New Forest from 1777, Gilpin wrote essays that defined this new aesthetic concept associated with pleasingly irregular forms situated between beauty and sublimity

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