Imagination in Landscape PaintING
Written by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Chapter 2:
The Two Senses of the Word ‘Imagination’
Notes:
Émile Littré (1 February 1801 – 2 June 1881) was a French lexicographer, freemason, and philosopher, best known for his Dictionnaire de la langue française, commonly called le Littré.
Definition of imago (as used by Hamerton): an idealized concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unaltered in adult life.