This book provides an overview of the extent to which the 18th-century English Landscape Garden spread through Europe and Russia. While this type of ...
The Pinturesque was an aesthetic concept that aroused enormous interest and some controversy, towards the end of the eighteenth century. It was a way ...
The Hon. Charles Hamilton was one of those extraordinary 18th-century gentlemen who, like Lord Cobham at Stowe and Henry Hoare at Stourhead, turned their ...
Delightful, eccentric, capricious, bizarre - the English Rococo garden, an intriguing branch of eighteenth-century horticulture, was all these and more. This book relates the ...