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WILLIAM GILPIN (BRITISH 1724-1804), EIGHT CAPRICCIO LANDSCAPE STUDIES

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2.000 £ - 3.000 £
ca. 2.474 $ - 3.712 $
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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 137

WILLIAM GILPIN (BRITISH 1724-1804), EIGHT CAPRICCIO LANDSCAPE STUDIES

Schätzpreis
2.000 £ - 3.000 £
ca. 2.474 $ - 3.712 $
Zuschlagspreis:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

WILLIAM GILPIN (BRITISH 1724-1804) EIGHT CAPRICCIO LANDSCAPE STUDIES Pencil, pen and brown ink, brown, ochre and grey wash All with dry stamp 'WG' (lower left) 16.5 x 23.7cm (6¼ x 9¼ in.) oval (8) Provenance: With William Drummond London Gilpin was a Clergyman, Schoolmaster and Artists and is best remembered as one of the originators of the idea of the picturesque. In his 1768 Essay on Prints he defined the picturesque as 'that kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture', and during the following two decades he travelled extensively, committing his thoughts and spontaneous sketches to notebooks. He began to expound his "principles of picturesque beauty" and circulated the manuscripts of his tour journal to his friends including Thomas Gray, Horace Walpole and King George III. In 1782 he published Observations on the River Wye.. which was illustrated with aquantints of his sketches, similar to the present lot.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 137
Auktion:
Datum:
14.12.2022
Auktionshaus:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
Großbritannien und Nordirland
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

WILLIAM GILPIN (BRITISH 1724-1804) EIGHT CAPRICCIO LANDSCAPE STUDIES Pencil, pen and brown ink, brown, ochre and grey wash All with dry stamp 'WG' (lower left) 16.5 x 23.7cm (6¼ x 9¼ in.) oval (8) Provenance: With William Drummond London Gilpin was a Clergyman, Schoolmaster and Artists and is best remembered as one of the originators of the idea of the picturesque. In his 1768 Essay on Prints he defined the picturesque as 'that kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture', and during the following two decades he travelled extensively, committing his thoughts and spontaneous sketches to notebooks. He began to expound his "principles of picturesque beauty" and circulated the manuscripts of his tour journal to his friends including Thomas Gray, Horace Walpole and King George III. In 1782 he published Observations on the River Wye.. which was illustrated with aquantints of his sketches, similar to the present lot.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 137
Auktion:
Datum:
14.12.2022
Auktionshaus:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
Großbritannien und Nordirland
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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