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Uvedale Price (1747-1829): Decoding the Picturesque
Charles Watkins
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Description for Uvedale Price (1747-1829): Decoding the Picturesque
Paperback. The first biography of the 18th-century landscape gardener, Uvedale Price, showing the key interconnections between his roles as landowner, art collector, forester, landscaper, connoisseur and scholar. Series: Garden and Landscape History. Num Pages: 276 pages, 31 black & white illustrations, 10 colour illustrations, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; AMV; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 18. Weight in Grams: 658.
The first biography of the 18th-century landscape gardener, Uvedale Price, showing the key interconnections between his roles as landowner, art collector, forester, landscaper, connoisseur and scholar. Uvedale Price achieved most fame as the author of the influential Essay on the Picturesque of 1794 in which he argued that the work of the greatest landscape artists, such as Salvator Rosa, Rubens and Claude, should be usedas models for the "improvement of real landscape". His attack on the smooth certainties of Capability Brown sparked off a public controversy, drawing in Richard Payne Knight and Humphry Repton, which became a cause célèbre. ... Read more
The first biography of the 18th-century landscape gardener, Uvedale Price, showing the key interconnections between his roles as landowner, art collector, forester, landscaper, connoisseur and scholar. Uvedale Price achieved most fame as the author of the influential Essay on the Picturesque of 1794 in which he argued that the work of the greatest landscape artists, such as Salvator Rosa, Rubens and Claude, should be usedas models for the "improvement of real landscape". His attack on the smooth certainties of Capability Brown sparked off a public controversy, drawing in Richard Payne Knight and Humphry Repton, which became a cause célèbre. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783270231
SKU
V9781783270231
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About Charles Watkins
CHARLES WATKINS is Professor of Rural Geography at the University of Nottingham. BEN COWELL, OBE, is the Director General of Historic Houses
Reviews for Uvedale Price (1747-1829): Decoding the Picturesque
Definitive. Watkins and Cowell have done us, and Price, a great service.
ENVIRONMENT AND HISTORY
A worthy and useful study.
LANDSCAPE HISTORY
An important, impressive addition to the Garden and Landscape series. The authors do full justice to the work and long-lasting influence of Uvedale Price.
NORTHERN HISTORY, L, no. 2, September 2013
Richly ... Read more
ENVIRONMENT AND HISTORY
A worthy and useful study.
LANDSCAPE HISTORY
An important, impressive addition to the Garden and Landscape series. The authors do full justice to the work and long-lasting influence of Uvedale Price.
NORTHERN HISTORY, L, no. 2, September 2013
Richly ... Read more