to the practice of landscape design. In conjunction with the work of Price and Knight, this led to the 'picturesque theory' that designed landscapes should be composed like landscape paintings with a foreground, a middle ground and a background. Repton believed that the foreground should be the realm of art (with formal geometry and ornamental planting), that the middleground should have a parkland character of the type created by Lancelot "Capability" Brown and that the background should have a wild and 'natural' character. John Ruskin identified the "picturesque" as a genuinely modern aesthetic category, in The Seven Lamps of Architecture. Dorothy Wordsworth wrote Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803 (1874) considered a classic of picturesque travel writing. See also Landscape painting Sharawadgi Planting design Borrowed scenery Context theory John Dixon Hunt Wye Valley Thomas Johnes References External links John Macarthur The Picturesque: architecture, disgust and other irregularities George P. Landow, "Ruskin on the Picturesque" "Turner's journeys of the imagination" Landscape Style of Repton, Price and Knight Pictures and Poetry. Debunking the Bunk: An Examination of Picturesque Influence, by Keith Waddington. A Masters Thesis at Concordia University. 1782 introductions Romanticism