[13] I. W. U. Chase, _Horace Walpole: Gardenist. An edition of Walpole's 'The History of the Modern Taste in Gardening' with an estimate of Walpole's contribution to landscape architecture_ (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1943), p. 26. [14] This is an apt example of the psychological theory of sight proposed by E. H. Gombrich, _Art and Illusion_ (New York: Pantheon, 1961). [15] _Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty; on Picturesque Travel; and on Sketching Landscape_ (London, 1792), p. 49. [16] Carl Paul Barbier, _William Gilpin, His Drawings, Teaching and Theory of the Picturesque_ (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1963), pp. 71, 106 and 139. [17] _Op. cit._, p. 49. [18] Cited by Templeman, _op. cit._, p. 228. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The facsimile of [William Gilpin's] _A Dialogue Upon The Gardens ... At Stow_ (1748) is reproduced from a copy (Shelf Mark: 577.e.26[3]) in the British Library. The total type-page (p. 7) measures 156 x 94 mm. A DIALOGUE UPON THE GARDENS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD VISCOUNT _COBHAM_, AT STOW in BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. _Here Order in Variety we see, Where all Things differ, yet where all agree._ Mr. POPE. [Illustration] _LONDON_: Printed for B. SEELEY, Bookseller in _Buckingham_, and Sold by J. and J. RIVINGTON, in _St. Paul's Church-Yard_. M DCC XLVIII. [Price One Shilling.] THE ADVERTISEMENT. _We read of a great Prince of Antiquity, who would suffer his Portrait to be taken only by the greatest Artist. And he thought justly without question: A great Object ought ever to be handled by a great Master. But yet I am apt to think that if Apelles had not offered his Service, the Monarch, rather than have had his Form unknown to Posterity, would have been glad to have employed some meaner Hand.----If Stow had been as fortunate in this Particular as Alexander, I need not now have taken up my Pencil: But as this charming Landskip is yet untouched by a Titian, or a Poussin, a mere Bungler has been tempted to venture upon it._