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English gardens and landscapes, 1700-1750.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating SB477.E5 H8
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hussey, Christopher, 1899-1970.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardens--England--History.
- Gardens.
- Landscape architecture.
- History.
- England.
- Landscape architecture--England--History.
- Gardens, English--History.
- Gardens, English.
- Physical Description:
- 174 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, 96 plates, maps. ; 28 1/2 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Country Life, 1967.
- Contents:
- The poetic garden
- English, Dutch and Baroque gardens
- Sources of the landscape garden
- Noblemen's recreation
- The poet and the painter
- Palladian bridges
- Powis Castle, Montgomeryshire
- Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire
- Ebbertson Hall, Yorkshire
- Bramham Park, Yorkshire
- Cirencester Park, Gloucestershire
- St Paul's Walden Bury, Hertfordshire
- Stowe, Buckinghamshire: "A place to wonder at;" Bridgeman and Vanbruch (1713-1738); Kent and Gibbs (1733-1750); Princely recreation
- Castle Howard, Yorkshire: The sublime Elysium; The site and the house; The genesis of landscape; From Hawksmoor to Nesfield
- Studley Royal, Yorkshire
- Duncombe Park, Yorkshire
- Rousham, Oxfordshire
- Euston Hall, Suffolk
- Stourhead, Wiltshire.
- Notes:
- Bibliographical footnotes.
- OCLC:
- 2616591
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