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The English landscape garden : dreaming of Arcadia / Tim Richardson ; photography by Clive Boursnell.

Fine Arts Library SB457.6 .R53 2024
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Richardson, Tim, 1968- author.
Contributor:
Boursnell, Clive, photographer.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Gardens, English--History--18th century.
Gardens, English.
Gardens, English--History--18th century--Pictorial works.
Gardens--England--Design--History--18th century.
Gardens.
Gardens--England--Design--History--18th century--Pictorial works.
Landscape gardening--England--History--18th century--Pictorial works.
Landscape gardening.
Genre:
Illustrated works.
Physical Description:
319 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Place of Publication:
London, United Kingdom : Frances Lincoln, 2024.
Summary:
"The English Landscape Garden is a beautifully photographed celebration of the best of the 18th century English landscape garden, a quintessentially British art form that influenced the rest of the world. Smooth lawns, glassy pools, cool garden temples, mysterious woodland glades, evocative statuary, the 18th-century English landscape garden offers a transcendent vision of Arcadia, a world of rich escapism peopled by gods and goddesses, young lovers and dairymaids, poets and philosophers. This sumptuous, beautifully photographed volume celebrates this quintessentially British creation, arguably its greatest artform, taking you on a tour of 20 of the finest surviving gardens"--Publisher's description.
Contents:
Castle Howard, North Yorkshire
Wrest Park, Bedfordshire
Bramham Park, West Yorkshire
Claremont, Surrey
Chiswick House, London
Studley Royal, North Yorkshire
Stowe, Buckinghamshire
Castle Hill, Devon
St Paul's Walden Bury, Hertfordshire
Rousham, Oxfordshire
West Wycombe Park, Buckinghamshire
Hagley Hall, Worcestershire
Stourhead, Wiltshire
Hestercombe, Somerset
Painshill, Surrey
Petworth Park, West Sussex
Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire
Hackfall, North Yorkshire
Hawkstone, Shropshire
Hafod, Ceredigion.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
ebook version :
ISBN:
071129092X
9780711290921
OCLC:
1416697947
Publisher Number:
CIPO000119655

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