Herein lies one aspect of the Picturesque that I find compelling when trying to explain how a theory grounded in the unique character of the British countryside could devolve into a mass producible, placeless image. The treatises and plan books of the nineteenth century that evocative descriptions of native British landscape generalized, abstracted, and reduced his tactile, phenomenal sites to reproducible visual scenery. Even the illustrations reduced the site to landscape by failing to depict topography and by crapping the perspectives into placeless, decorative vignettes.