Art appreciation comes in many forms. Today we explore how Nathaniel Willis appreciates the landscape of the Lake George area in one of his writings and how the aesthetic value of picturesque relates to it and the art of the early 18th and 19th centuries. We discuss works from artists like Thomas Doughty, George Caleb Bingham, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Claude-Joseph Vernet, Giovanni Antonio Canal, and Francesco Guardi.