Pictorial vs. Picturesque

Pictorialadjective

Of, relating to, composed of, or illustrated by pictures.

Pictorialadjective

Described or otherwise represented as if in a picture; graphic or vivid.

Pictorialadjective

Stylistically similar to a painting, especially following pictorial conventions of a photograph – see pictorialism.

Pictorialnoun

a newspaper or magazine with many pictures, or section thereof

Pictorialnoun

an article primarily featuring many photographs, or simply a collection of photographs

Pictorialnoun

(philately) a stamp featuring a vignette of local scenery or culture.

Pictorialadjective

Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.

Pictorialnoun

a periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many pictures

Pictorialadjective

pertaining to or consisting of pictures;

Pictorialadjective

evoking lifelike images within the mind;

Pictorialadjective

of or expressed in pictures; illustrated

Pictorialnoun

a newspaper or periodical with pictures as a main feature

Picturesqueadjective

Resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting; pleasingly beautiful.

Picturesqueadjective

Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language.

Picturesqueadjective

suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture;

Picturesqueadjective

strikingly expressive;

Picturesque

Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc. Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the Summer of the Year 1770, a practical book which instructed England’s leisured travellers to examine “the face of a country by the rules of picturesque beauty”.