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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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The quality which people looked for in nature in late 18C Britain, greatly influencing the British *watercolour tradition. It derived from an interest in 17C artists such as *Claude and Salvator Rosa, and developed with the romantic trend in *landscape gardening. But it was the Rev. William *Gilpin (1724–1804) who popularized it through his accounts of his own sketching tours, beginning with Observations on the river Wye... relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty (1782). Gilpin was the original of Dr *Syntax.
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