In Two Volumes, Volume II.ĭamn it, I took him to see a glassworks the other day thought it would appeal to his sense of what you call the picturesque but, Lord bless me, he asked how much the blowers were paid and wanted me to raise their pay on the spot.įor a week or two it seemed that a cottage might drop in their way but it happened to be what you call picturesque, and a rich man snapped it up. Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. adjective suggesting or suitable for a picture pretty as a pictureĪll the pleasure which the people of the nineteenth century take in art, is in pictures, sculpture, minor objects of virtù, or mediæval architecture, which we enjoy under the term picturesque: no pleasure is taken anywhere in modern buildings, and we find all men of true feeling delighting to escape out of modern cities into natural scenery: hence, as I shall hereafter show, that peculiar love of landscape, which is characteristic of the age.Īt present this forms one of the very few objects to which the term picturesque may properly be applied, existing in the States and, linked as it is with the recollections of its gallant founders, I confess it laid strong hold of my imagination, absorbing my eyes and interest as long as I could keep it in view.scenicįrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. adjective Resembling or worthy of a picture or painting having the qualities of a picture or painting.adjective Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial graphic vividįrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
Strikingly graphic or vivid abounding or diversified with striking and vivid imagery: as, picturesque language.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.Picture-like possessing notably original and pleasing qualities such as would be effective in a picture forming or fitted to form an interesting or striking picture, as a mountain waterfall, or a pine-covered headland, or a gay costume amid appropriate surroundings.adjective Strikingly expressive or vivid.adjective Striking or interesting in an unusual way irregularly or quaintly attractive.adjective Of, suggesting, or suitable for a picture.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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