A practical illustration of Gilpin's day : representing the various effects on landscape scenery from morning till night, in thirty designs from nature / by the Rev. Wm. Gilpin ; with instructions in, and explanation of, the improved method of colouring,

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PML 145725
Author: 
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804.
Published: 
London : Published for the Proprietors, by Priestley and Weale ... and C. Knight, 1824.
Description: 
vi, [34] p., 30 leaves of plates : col. ill. (aquatint, hand col.) ; 40 cm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Scottish artist John Heaviside Clark added color to Gilpin's studies of the times of day, transforming a midday landscape into a sensational nocturnal scene with lightning. The heightened emotional resonance of this adaptation signals a shift toward the Romantic from Gilpin's more analytical and strictly visual eighteenth-century Picturesque.

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"Printed by J. Hayes, Dartmouth Street, Westminster."
Illustrated with 30 hand colored aquatint landscapes by J.H. Clark after Gilpin.
Originally published by Edward Orme in 1811. The 1824 edition is a reissue of the plates with a new title page, published for 'the Proprietors'. Cf. Bicknell.

Binding: 
1/2 red morocco.
Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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