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. VOL. II. Cicero. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN, 22, POULTRY. PREFACE. THE three Essays which I here offer to the public, though detached from each other and from the Essay on the Picturesque, are, in respect to the matter they contain, and the suite of ideas they present, perfectly connected. In all that I have written, I have had two chief purposes in view: the one, to point out the best method of forming our taste and judgment in regard to the effect of all visible objects, universally; the other, to shew in what manner the principles so acquired, may be applied to the improvement of those par a 3 |