Three essays : on picturesque beauty, on picturesque travel, and on sketching landscape : to which is added a poem, on landscape painting
Three essays on picturesque beauty, travel and sketching landscape, with a poem on landscape painting, by William Gilpin and published in London in 1794 for the general reader of landscape art. The single picture is a perspective construction diagram: a block-like solid drawn in grey wash, with long converging guide lines running to a vanishing point above and below and handwritten labels along the edges. A designer could take from it the clean logic of one-point and two-point perspective as a structural device for layouts that pull the eye toward a focal point.
