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picturesque: a standalone construct

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Aesthetics

the category between the beautiful and the sublime, marked by roughness, irregularity and sudden variation.

In aesthetics, picturesque refers to the category between the beautiful and the sublime, marked by roughness, irregularity and sudden variation. This meaning comes from Price (1794) in An essay 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.[1]

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  1. Price, U. (1794). An essay 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. printed for J. Robson. Open Library record

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