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• Author/Creator:Gilpin, William, 1724-1804.
  
• Title:Three essays : on picturesque beauty : on picturesque travel : and on sketching landscape : with a poem on landscape painting : to these are now added two essays, giving an account of the principles and mode in which the author executed his own drawings / by William Gilpin.
  
• Edition:Third edition.
  
• Published/Created:London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ..., 1808.
  
• Physical Description:[iii]-xvi, 183, [1] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: ND1340 G5 1808
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

   
• Notes:Includes index.
  Half t.p.: Five essays on picturesque subjects; with a poem on landscape painting.
  Printed by Strahan and Preston, Printers-Street, London.
  BAC: Publisher's advertisement: [1] p. at end.
  
• Variant and related titles:Five essays, on picturesque subjects; with a poem on landscape painting.
  
• Format:Book
• Subjects:Landscape painting.
  Landscape drawing.
  Drawing--Technique.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1808.
  Cadell, (T.) and Davies, (W.)--Publisher.
  Strahan and Preston--Printer.
  
• Genre/Form:Aquatints--1808.
  Soft-ground etchings--1808.
  Etchings--1808.