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Mary Sparling and Scott Robson have used the concept of ‘picturesque beauty' as a central theme in their book, Great Expectations: The European Vision in Nova Scotia 1749-1848 (1980). The term was first coined by the Reverend William Gilpin, a clergyman and traveller through the British Isles in the mid-1800s, who also practised landscape drawing and "was concerned to show ordinary people in a union with nature." According to Sparling and Robson, this artistic style was also popular in Nova Scotia, where "Although often over-romanticized, close-up views of farmers and Indians in their everyday life became popular subjects for artists and their clients."
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"Presentation to the Marquis of Lorne of Micmac Indians in the Council Chamber of the Provincial Building, Halifax, November 26th, 1878" Date: 1878 Artist: H.A. Ogden Reference no.: Prints Old and Rare NSARM accession no. 1997-233, no. 6