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GILPIN'S DAY. 
 
THE LAST WORK 
 
 PUBLISHED OF THE 
 
 REV. WILLIAM GILPIN, M. A. 
 
 PREBENDARY OF SALISBURY, AND VICAR OF BOLDRE, 
 
 NEAR LYMINGTON ; 
 REPRESENTING THE EFPECT OF 
 
 A MORNING, A NOON TIDE, 
 
 AND 
 
 AN EVENING SUN. 
 
 IN THIRTY DESIGNS FROM NATURE. 
 
 LONDON : 
 
 PUBLISHED BY EDWARD ORME, PRINTSELLER TO HIS MAJESTY, 
 
 ENGRAVER AND PUBLISHER, BOND-STREET, CORNER OF BROOK-STREET. 
 
 PRINTED BY W. BULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND-ROW, ST. JAMES'S. 
 
 1810. 
 
NOTE. 
 
 It deserves to be mentioned to the credit of Mr. Gilpin, that the profits on the Sale of 
 the Original of this Work, as well as others of his Drawings, he very laudably 
 appropriated to the establishing a Free-School in his own Parish of Boldre. 
 
GILPIN'S DAY, 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, 
 
 IN THE COLLECTION OF 
 
 JAMES FORBES, ESQ. F.R.S. 
 
 TO WHOM THIS WORK 
 
 IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, 
 
 BY 
 
 EDWARD ORME. 
 
MR. GILPIN'S DESCRIPTION. 
 
 PLATE I. 
 
 The Sun rises ruddy, and turbid, and just touches the tops of the 
 highest ground. The intervening objects, and ground shadows, are, 
 of course, dark and deep. 
 
 11. 
 
 The same idea is continued; only here the Sun rises with a fainter 
 and more wan lustre. 
 
 III. 
 
 The Sun here gets more force, and beams along the surface of the 
 ground : but the Day is setting in cloudy, and obscure. 
 
 IV. 
 
 The Sun still gets more power, and objects begin to appear more 
 distinctly. 
 
 V. VI. 
 
 The same idea is continued, only the atmosphere is somewhat 
 more hazy. 
 
 VII. VIII. 
 
 The Sun is clouded; but as there is not much haziness in the 
 atmosphere, the several parts of the country appear very distinctly. 
 
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 IX. 
 
 As the Day advances, the Morning gets clearer. The Sun shines 
 out; but without much strength. 
 
 X. 
 
 The Sun is obscured, and the atmosphere inclines to rain. 
 
 XI. 
 
 The effect here intended, is that of reflection of a bright sky on 
 the water, when the Sun itself is obscured. 
 
 XII. XIII. XIV. 
 
 As it is now high noon, which always afibrds an unfavourable 
 light to the painter, he avoids, as much as he can, the vertical rays of 
 the Sun, and likes its mildest effusions best. It here shines wanly and 
 hazily upon the clifi's. 
 
 XV. XVI. XVII. XVIII. XIX. 
 
 These subjects are all instances of Landscapes under meridian 
 Suns, chastised by different degrees of mist, and cloudy weather. 
 
 XX. 
 
 Evening, the picturesque time of the Day, is now coming on ; the 
 Sun, varying from its meridian, is beginning to descend, and the light 
 is more contracted. 
 
 XXI. XXII. 
 
 The same idea is continued; but the sky is still more tinged with 
 its warm evening hue. 
 
 XXIII. XXIV. XXV. 
 
 The evening glow now pervades the Landscape strongly. 
 
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 XXVI. 
 
 The mild effusions of evening light, which pervade the three last 
 Landscapes, are here changed into a wild, turbid sky, prognosticating 
 
 a storm. 
 
 XXVII. 
 
 A calm Sun-set; the Sun is supposed to be setting behind the rising 
 ground on which the ruin stands. 
 
 XXVIII. 
 
 The idea of a calm, freaky Sun-set upon a lake. 
 
 XXIX. 
 
 The SuD is now set, and the evening closes in, but rather mid, 
 and lowering. 
 
 XXX. 
 
 Here the evening closes in more mildly. The Sun leaves only a 
 faint light on the sky, but without the power of touching even the 
 highest objects with its light. 
 
 London : printed by \V. Bulmer and Co. 
 Cleveland-row, St. James's. 
 
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