a. (UN-1 7.)
1791. W. Gilpin, Forest Scenery, I. 54. The walnut is not an unpicturesque tree.
1821. Craig, Lect. Drawing, etc., v. 301. It might be supposed that stone lying in regular layers, would be unpicturesque.
1870. Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. I. (1873), 229. Looked at on the outside, New England history is dry and unpicturesque.
Hence Unpicturesquely adv., -ness.
1840. Poe, Domain Arnheim, Wks. 1864, I. 394. Our disorder may seem order—our unpicturesqueness picturesque.
1876. ‘Annie Thomas,’ Blotted out, viii. My hair has been unpicturesquely out of order.
