Three essays : on picturesque beauty, on picturesque travel and on sketching landscape : to which is added a poem, on landscape painting
William Gilpin's 1792 London treatise on picturesque beauty, travel and sketching landscape, published by R. Blamire for readers of landscape art and taste. Its one picture is a perspective diagram: a stacked, cut-away geometric block drawn with converging sight lines to vanishing points, the kind of construction a designer can reuse for depth and form studies.
