Birket Fosters Pictures Of English Landscape

A stunning collection of landscape paintings by the renowned artist Myles Birket Foster, including detailed descriptions of the places and scenes depicted in each piece. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from Birket Foster's Pictures of English Landscape: Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel With Pictures in Words IT is fair that the public should be informed of the relation of the designer and the writer who have contributed to this volume. Birket Foster's drawings were made quite independently of the verses I have attempted. To set to them. I am therefore the more free to express, in the first place, my admiration of the singular grace, fertility and facility of invention, felicitous arrangement of line, and harmonious distribution of light and shadow which distinguish the compositions of this charming artist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.