Uvedale Price (1747-1829): Decoding the Picturesque

by Ben Cowell and Charles Watkins

Book Overview

The first biography of the 18th-century landscape gardener, Uvedale Price, showing the key interconnections between his roles as landowner, art collector, forester, landscaper, connoisseur and scholar.

Uvedale Price achieved most fame as the author of the influential Essay on the Picturesque of 1794 in which he argued that the work of the greatest landscape artists, such as Salvator Rosa, Rubens and Claude, should be usedas models for the "improvement...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843837080
• ISBN13: 9781843837084
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.9"