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Voyage en différentes parties de l'Angleterre, et particulièrement dans les montagnes & sur les lacs du Cumberland & du Westmoreland : contenant des observations relatives aux beautés pittoresques

Gilpin, William, 1724-1804, Guédon de Berchère, Pierre, Defer de Maisonneueve, André, 1749-1795, Blamire, Richmond · 1789 · A Paris : Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, libr. ... ; A Londres : Chez Blamire, libraire ... · 24 pictures

A French translation of William Gilpin's picturesque travel account of England's Cumberland and Westmoreland lakes and mountains, published in Paris and London in 1789 by Defer de Maisonneuve and Blamire for educated travellers and collectors of landscape taste. Its plates are oval-framed engraved landscapes of rocky crags, woods and ruins, with foliage rendered in dense hatched tonal work that a designer could borrow for botanical or natural textures.

Picturesque, The, in art

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