An essay on the picturesque by Sir Uvedale Price

Author:Sir Uvedale Price
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Printed for J. Robson

the same effects are producecHay the fame means. Whatever is neatly finished, and the form (whatever it may be) accurately expressed, will be less ugly than the fame style of form executed in a slovenly and unfinished manner. A neat brick-wall, for instance, is less ugly, though perhaps more unpicturesque, than a slovenly mud-wall; a brick-cottage, than a mud one. A clamp of brick no one will deny to be completely ugly, and it is melancholy to reflect how many houses in this kingdom are built upon that model the chief difference, and that which makes them a degree less ugly, is the sharpness of their angles.

With respect to colours, it appears to me that as transparency is one essential quality of beauty, so the want of that transparency, or what may be termed muddipess, is the most general and efficient cause of ugliness. A colour, for instance,

may

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