The Drive, Norbury Park
George Barret the Elder’s “The Drive, Norbury Park,” painted in 1775, stands as a quintessential example of British Romantic landscape art. More than just a depiction of scenery, it embodies the philosophical currents of its time—specifically Edmund Burke's influential *A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful*, which championed emotion and imagination as pathways to understanding nature’s grandeur.









