These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'picturesque.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. She and her husband lived in India until 1845, mostly in and around Allahabad at the confluence of the Jumna and Ganges Rivers. 2023 According to that ranking, the picturesque city of Alicante, on the Spanish Costa Blanca, has the highest number of sunny hours in Europe: an average of 349 hours of sunshine per month. Louis, which drew tourists and New Orleans residents who built second homes along the shorelines. The Search for the Picturesque: Landscape Aesthetics and Tourism, in Britain, 1760-1800 Andrews, Malcolm on. 2022 Keath Ladner’s grandfather had opened a seafood market in the region in 1942, serving the picturesque city of Bay St. Eleanor Lynn Nesmith, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Dec. 2023 Her most recent book, 30A Living Book, highlights the picturesque communities along Florida’s northwest gulf coast. The Picturesque Studies in a Point of View By Christopher Hussey Edition 1st Edition First Published 1967 eBook Published 30 August 2019 Pub. 2023 Famous for juxtaposing sudden violence against a picturesque setting, Midsomer Murders has enjoyed an incredible run of success and intrigue, and found a loyal fanbase along the way. 2023 Offering picturesque views of London, the Presidential Suite has a different tone to the Executive and the St Paul Duplex suites. Situated near Stockbridge, Dean Village was the centre of a successful grain milling area for more than 800 years and is often described as the most picturesque part of the Capital. Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr.
2023 The Leaky Cauldron is located in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Diagon Alley at Universal Studios Florida and serves British fare in a picturesque setting inspired by the films. 2023 Mom and daughter posed together on a boulder and later, Delilah struck some poses on her own as the preteen enjoyed the picturesque setting. Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty (1770), Gilpin famously suggested that some of the straighter and more regular “gabel-ends” of Tintern Abbey could benefit from some aesthetic alteration: “A mallet judiciously used (but who durst use it?) might be of service in fracturing some of them”.Recent Examples on the Web TheNohl home, at 72 North Beach Drive in Fox Point, has picturesque views of Lake Michigan and is adorned with paintings, sculptures and other art mediums. 2 On the Picturesque and related matters I am thinking of, e.g., Samuel Holt Monk, The Sublime (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1962) John Dixon. In his Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales.
While Gilpin was very skilled at describing a post-Enlightenment preference for “the rough, varied and irregular forms of nature” instead of the strict lines and right angles of the earlier eighteenth century, he was also very often ridiculous. But the word has its origins in late eighteenth-century Britain, where the artist, Anglican cleric, and schoolmaster William Gilpin (1724–1804) was its foremost promoter. The word “picturesque” has long been a rather vague way of describing a certain ramshackle beauty - in particular the beauty of a rural landscape, or a country house, or some other old structure gone to attractive ruin.
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