Uvedale Price

Zoë Kinsley (Liverpool Hope University College)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.06: English Writing and Culture of the Romantic Period, 1789-1837.
Vol. editors: Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Daniel Robinson (Widener University), Emily Rohrbach (University of Durham)

Dates

Born Apr 1747
Died 14 Sep 1829
Activity 1794-1829

Places

Born in England
Active in England; Wales

Activities

Primary

Art Theorist/ Historian/ Critic
Landscape designer

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One of the major contributors to the picturesque school, Uvedale Price was an improver of landscape, concerned with both the aesthetics of place and the practical concerns of rural estate management. Whilst his

Essay on the Picturesque

promoted artistic connoisseurship and attempted to invest the debate on the picturesque with greater moral seriousness, in his daily duties as a Herefordshire landowner he was committed to progressive agricultural reform and the development of local networks of support that would be of benefit to cottager and landlord alike, and which would bolster regional security at a time of threat from abroad.

Uvedale Price was born at Foxley, in the parish of Yazor, Herefordshire, in 1747 and was baptized on 14th April of that year. He was the eldest son of Robert

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Citation: Kinsley, Zoë. "Uvedale Price". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 April 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3636, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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