Note 1 to Chapter 8 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
Christopher Hussey, The Picturesque: Studies in a Point of View (1927; rpt. London: Archon Books, 1967); Walter J. Hipple, Jr., The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Picturesque in Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetic Theory (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1957); and Luke Herrmann, British Landscape Painting of the Eighteenth Century (London: Faber and Faber, 1973), chapter 4.
William D. Tempelman, The Life and Work of William Gilpin (1724-1804): Master of the Picturesque and Vicar of Boldre (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1939), p. 82. See also C. P. Barbier, William Gilpin: His Drawings, Teaching, and Theory of the Picturesque (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963).
Last modified 20 September 2000