Practical hints upon landscape gardening

William Sawrey Gilpin was an English artist and drawing master. In his later life he took up landscape design. He taught himself the aquatint process of printmaking so as to be able to illustrate his uncle William Gilpin's books on picturesque scenery (the elder Gilpin was the originator of the Picturesque). Gilpin specialized in landscape watercolors, but turned to landscape gardening as a career in order to support his family. He worked with the picturesque theorist Uvedale Price, whose theories on landscape design became important sources for Gilipin. In his short career, Gilpin became extremely successful, reputedly designing a few hundred sites.