1592951692000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-10708 1760552627899 1760542999000 1760552439251 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-10708 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/10708 734ef4f1-da09-37e4-acfb-7cfbcdc719a0 8 reference term-106206 adlib-term-106206 da969d02-66a2-3e51-8dde-d1d8613f2ff6 paper Support Paintings, Drawings and Prints 3674/3 1 accession number 3674/3 10708 priref 10708 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/10708 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/10708 top centre brown ink 2 recto brown ink two prevailing characters of landscape. Sublimity(underlined) marks / the one - amenity(underlined), the other. /We seldom however find either of these characters perfect- / ly pure. They are generally intermixed: for little beauty re- / sults from sublimity alone: & yet the rural, without a little of / the sublime, would be low, & vulgar. The mixture therefore of / these two characters forms a third species; wh. is the charac- / ter of most of the following drawings: & indeed it is the cha- / racter of most of the best landscapes we have. We always / wish for so much sublimity(underlined), as to banish every thing low, and / trivial; & for so much amenity(underlined), as to soften the sublime. In / this mixed mode of landscape, we hardly admit the cottage. In / its room we rather expect the castle. The brook may mur- / mur over pebbles; yet we are better pleased, when it spreads / into a river: but as to the appendages of husbandry, and / every the last three words underlined; square brackets denote deleted word verso brown ink + There can be no grandeur in such little portions of rock, as / are [here] introduced in these two scenes. They may serve however, in some degree, / to explain my 'principle of grandeur.' reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-151972 adlib-agent-151972 a004cfc5-52e8-3956-a6a6-7c2db8044ad8 Perceval, Spencer George 1922 1922 1922 bequeathed 1789 1789 1789 1789 1794 1 1794 1794 1794 draughtsman reference agent-52204 adlib-agent-52204 54d8baeb-d24d-3181-a25c-24a6a3369477 Gilpin, William reference term-107765 adlib-term-107765 bdfedaec-2985-3ba5-b062-1592ba08a35d 1780s reference term-107764 adlib-term-107764 0d6ecfb5-e150-385d-8b76-979bcf2adc8c 1790s Height mm 205 Width mm 285 reference term-106299 adlib-term-106299 3926a617-f986-3db0-a8cd-7d8071aa7a46 brown ink reference term-31041 adlib-term-31041 777e9d03-48c7-3aba-a563-03dee309fe95 graphite reference term-101697 adlib-term-101697 613a191a-56ce-3317-8b6e-e5df00e65022 sketchbook reference term-147811 adlib-term-147811 0f421469-4a4e-3849-870f-5aea3779b2c2 folio reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-9168 adlib-term-9168 6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f British

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