Author: M. Knoedler & Co
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Knoedler Library: Christie's Sales to 1902
Author: M. Knoedler & Co
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Britannia Illustrata
Author: Johannes Kip
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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A History of English Gardening, Chronological, Biographical, Literary, and Critical
Author: George William Johnson
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Polite Landscapes
Author: Tom Williamson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Parks and gardens in eighteenth-century England are usually seen as works of art created by individual geniuses like William Kent, Capability Brown and Humphry Repton. But this narrow view wasn't necessarily shared by contemporaries, and Tom Williamson in this thought-provoking book reveals that the aristocracy and gentry, who paid for these private landscapes and lived in them, were motivated by more complex interests and needs. Landowners had strong ideas of their own about how their property should look and how it should function. The park and garden were part of a working estate consisting of farms and forestry enterprises, and the surroundings of the country house were shaped to suit the requirements of hunting, shooting, riding and other recreational activities as well as to conform to the aesthetic principles of philosophers and landscape gardeners. Tom Williamson's pioneering study concentrates on the wider social, economic and political implications of these elaborate private landscapes. He emphasizes the practical relationship between the landowners who were demanding customers and the designers who were businessmen as well as artists. In the process he shows how changing fashions in the layout of gentlemen's pleasure grounds were related to broader currents of social and economic development in eighteenth-century England.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Parks and gardens in eighteenth-century England are usually seen as works of art created by individual geniuses like William Kent, Capability Brown and Humphry Repton. But this narrow view wasn't necessarily shared by contemporaries, and Tom Williamson in this thought-provoking book reveals that the aristocracy and gentry, who paid for these private landscapes and lived in them, were motivated by more complex interests and needs. Landowners had strong ideas of their own about how their property should look and how it should function. The park and garden were part of a working estate consisting of farms and forestry enterprises, and the surroundings of the country house were shaped to suit the requirements of hunting, shooting, riding and other recreational activities as well as to conform to the aesthetic principles of philosophers and landscape gardeners. Tom Williamson's pioneering study concentrates on the wider social, economic and political implications of these elaborate private landscapes. He emphasizes the practical relationship between the landowners who were demanding customers and the designers who were businessmen as well as artists. In the process he shows how changing fashions in the layout of gentlemen's pleasure grounds were related to broader currents of social and economic development in eighteenth-century England.
An Encyclopaedia of Gardening
Author: John Claudius Loudon
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 1504
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 1504
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The Victorian Country House
Author: Mark Girouard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300034721
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
A study of Britain's great nineteenth-century houses examines their architects, and the social, technological, and economic conditions that made the massive structures possible
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300034721
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
A study of Britain's great nineteenth-century houses examines their architects, and the social, technological, and economic conditions that made the massive structures possible
England's Lost Houses
Author: Giles Worsley
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Of all the photographs in Country Life's archives, none are more poignant or intriguing than the images of houses that have been lost. This text puts the lost country houses of England in historical context and explains why so many were destroyed.
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Of all the photographs in Country Life's archives, none are more poignant or intriguing than the images of houses that have been lost. This text puts the lost country houses of England in historical context and explains why so many were destroyed.
Liber Studiorum
Author: Joseph Mallord William Turner
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Category : Engraving
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engraving
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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The Picturesque Landscape
Author: Stephen Daniels
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Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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