Eighteenth-century England saw the rise of a "peculiarly English" art form - landscape gardening - and a corresponding change in attitudes toward the natural world. While the French, who lived under tyranny, had tightly organized, restrictive gardens, the "free" English enjoyed gardens where they were at liberty to wander. John Dixon Hunt examines ...
Rare, small, but perfectly formed, examples of this by-way of eighteenth century gardening are now immaculately restored and highly visited, but Painswick Rococo Garden is the most accessible and most feted of them all. In this book the author, champion of rcoco, details the designs, the buildings and the planting; he discusses overlapping styles ...
The 18th-century landscape garden is the only art form to have originated wholly in Britain which then went on to influence the rest of the world. Tim Richardson here tells the extraordinary story of the gang of eccentrics who created these gardens, a small group of politicians and poets, farmers and businessmen, heiresses and landowners whose ...
The English have always turned to their gardens or wooded "wildernesses" for contemplative consolation. To explore the meditative aspect of English garden-making, this work combines selected poetry, diary extracts, letters and more formal writing from the 16th through the 18th centuries with illustrations and the author's perceptive commentary. ...
A text which describes the contribution made to the European heritage by the gardens and parks of the Georgian period, one of the most important in British garden history.
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