Price’s essay expand Gilpin’s distinctions between the picturesque beautiful (and by association, Kant’s distinctions between beautiful and the sublime) and locates the essence of the picturesque in the physical attributes of the object. This development marks and eighteen-century tendency to classify and codify by locating picturesqueness in varied, irregular, asymmetrical, and rough objects or scenes . In contrast, Knight’s poem and later essay, An Analytical Inquiry into the principle of taste (1805), emphasize the associational and emotive characteristics of the picturesque over the formal or visual. One knew a picturesque scene not by its formal attributes, but by the feeling it evoke in the viewer.