6 Michael Angelo Rooker, Interior of Ruins, Buildwas Abbey, Shropshire,...

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TitleBuildwas Abbey, Shropshire

Creator nameRooker, Michael

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1772–1800

Object typePainting

MaterialsGraphite and watercolor

LocationAshmolean Museum, Oxford

https://www.ashmolean.org/collections-online#/item/ash-object-89961

Accession numberWA1934.181

SubjectsLandscape painting, British--18th centuryRuins in art

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I. Aesthetics, Philosophy and Physiology: The Road to Phenomenalism

Charlotte Klonk

Description: Science and the Perception of Nature: British Landscape Art in the Late Eighteenth...

Science and the Perception of Nature: British Landscape Art in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

During the eighteenth century there was a remarkable expansion in the production and appreciation of landscape art in Britain. A central part of the explanation for this is social and economic: the rise of an increasingly prosperous and self-confident landed gentry. It was the gentry who sustained the demand for depictions of the English countryside (much of which they owned) and it was their...

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Charlotte Klonk

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.9-36

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Chapter subject tags:Landscape painting, British--18th centuryPicturesque, The, in artSublime, The, in artGilpin, William, 1724-1804Art and science--England--18th centuryPhenomenalismArt and philosophy--England--18th centuryBurke, Edmund, 1753-1820Hartley, David, approximately 1731-1813Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804Scotland--Intellectual life--18th centuryGreat Britain--Intellectual life--18th century

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