ON

THE PICTURESQUE,

AS COMPARED WITH

THE SUBLIME AND THE BEAUTIFUL;

AND, ON

THE USE OF STUDYING PICTURES,

FOR THE PURPOSE OF

IMPROVING REAL LANDSCAPE.

By UVEDALE PRICE, Esq.

QUAM MULTA VIDENT PICTORES IN UMBRIS, ET IN

EMINENTIA, QUE NOS NON VIDEMUS!

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VOL. I.

Cicero.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN, 22, POULTRY.

W YORK

MEIGIL RARY 71069

ASTOR, INOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS, 1897.

J. G. Barnard, Printer, Skinner Street, London,

PREFACE

TO THE FIRST VOLUME.

As the general plan and intention of my first publication have been a good deal misunderstood, I wish to give a short account of them both.

The title itself might have shewn, that I aimed at something more than a mere book of gardening; some, however, have conceived that I ought to have begun by setting forth all my ideas of lawns, shrubberies, gravel-walks &c.; and as my arrangement did not coincide with their notions of what it ought to have been, they seem to have concluded that I had no plan at all, ·