Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture William Sawrey Gilpin (1761/2–1843), landscape painter and illustrator, later became a landscape gardener and writer. Between 1804 and 1806 he…
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William Sawrey Gilpin (1761/2–1843), landscape painter and illustrator, later became a landscape gardener and writer. Between 1804 and 1806 he was the first president of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, and then the third drawing master at the Royal Military College in Marlow. He set himself up as a drawing master in Paddington Green and also illustrated picturesque travel-writing.
His approach to landscape gardening was influenced by painting and Sir Uvedale Price's Essay on the Picturesque (1794). After being discharged from this post, Gilpin became a successful landscape gardener and advisor to the nobility. Gilpin's Hints, published in 1832, advocates that landscapes should be improved by the 'taste' of a painter's eye, and artificial buildings united with their surroundings.
Like his landscape practice, this book was highly regarded by Gilpin's contemporaries for its emphasis on the picturesque, especially when landscape gardening centred upon the introduction of exotic plants.
Cambridge Copy Collection
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Strange Horticulture
Fundamentals of Horticulture
Ornamental Palm Horticulture
Botany
Radical Botany
Colonial Botany