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List of Illustrations

John Dixon Hunt

Description: Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture

Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture

List of Illustrations

Author

John Dixon Hunt

PublisherMIT Press

Copyright© 1992 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00056.002

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16672

List of Illustrations

0.1. William Gilpin, plate depicting cattle, from his picturesque Observations on the Lake District, 1792 edition.

0.2. Gary Larson, cartoon.

0.3. The classical gateway and Gothic seat, Rousham, Oxfordshire.

0.4. The garden front of Rousham House, Oxfordshire.

0.5. The facade of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice.

1.1. Plan of Castle Howard, based on early eighteenth-century estate plans.

1.2. The Carrmire Gate, Castle Howard.

1.3. The Pyramid Gate, Castle Howard.

1.4. Anonymous, the ruined Woodstock Manor at Blenheim, drawing of 1714.

1.5. Nicholas Hawksmoor, design of a temple for Castle Howard, dated 1723 on the proposed building.

1.6. The Temple of the Four Winds, Castle Howard.

1.7. The Villa Ludovisi, from Falda, Li Giardini di Roma, 1683.

1.8. Andrea Palladio, detail of his reconstruction of the Temple of Fortune, Praeneste (Palestrina).

1.9. Castle Howard, engraving from Colen Campbell, Vitruvius Britannicus, vol. 3, 1725.

1.10. William Stukeley, drawing of “The ancient manner of Temples in Groves.”

1.11. Proposal for Wray Wood, Castle Howard.

1.12. Second proposal for Wray Wood, Castle Howard.

1.13. Third proposal for Wray Wood, Castle Howard.

1.14. Gustav Utens, lunette depicting the Villa of Pratolino, 1599.

1.15. Distant view of the Temple of the Four Winds from the site of the vanished Temple of Venus, Castle Howard.

1.16. Bridge and distant Mausoleum from the Temple of the Four Winds, Castle Howard.

1.17. Pyramid in Pretty Wood, Castle Howard.

1.18. Four Faces in Pretty Wood, Castle Howard.

1.19. William Kent, landscape capriccio with Hampton Court, Esher, and the River Thames (illustration of Michael Drayton’s Polyolbion).

1.20. The Pyramid, Castle Howard.

2.1. J. S. Muller after S. Wale, “A general prospect of Vaux Hall Gardens … ,” from Stow’s Survey of London, 1754.

2.2. View of the canal, Chinese building, and Rotunda in Ranelagh Gardens, colored engraving, 1750s.

2.3. Thomas Bowles after S. Wale, Vauxhall, the Temple of Comus, c. 1751.

2.4. Engraving of the hillside amphitheater at Wilton, from Isaac de Caus, Le Jardin du Wilton, c. 1645.

2.5. Water Theater, Villa Mondragone, Frascati, from Falda, Le Fontane di Roma, 1675-1691.

2.6. E. Rooker (?) after Canaletto, Vauxhall, a view of the Centre Cross Walk, 1760s, from the grangerized History of Vauxhall Gardens, 1890.

2.7. Claremont amphitheater, engraving by J. Rocque, 1734.

2.8. Balthasar Nebot, topiary arches and “shutters” to the George II column, Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire, 1738.

2.9. Inigo Jones, garden backdrop for a masque, drawing of 1630s.

2.10. James Thornhill, sketch of a set for Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus, c. 1704.

3.1. Plan of Stowe, 1739.

3.2. Stowe: the Temple of British Worthies, from the slope below the Temple of Ancient Virtue.

3.3. Stowe: the Temple of Ancient Virtue from the Temple of British Worthies.

3.4. Stowe: engraving of the Temple of Modern Virtue.

3.5. John Searle, engraved plan of Pope’s Garden at Twickenham, 1745.

3.6. Detail from T. Badeslade’s engraved view of Hammels, Hertfordshire, 1722.

3.7. Stowe, the Gothick Temple, or Temple of Liberty.

4.1. Pope’s obelisk to his mother’s memory in his gardens at Twickenham, Middlesex. Engraving from Edward Ironside’s History and Antiquities of Twickenham, 1797.

4.2. Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake.

4.3. Jacques Rigaud, drawing of the Great Obelisk in Chiswick Gardens.

4.4. Jacques Rigaud, detail from drawing of visitors at Gibbs’s Building in the grounds of Stowe, Buckinghamshire.

4.5. Alexander Pope, The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace … Imitated, 1733.

4.6. Claude Lorrain, drawing of the Muses (preparatory study for figure 4.7).

4.7. Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Apollo, the Muses, and River God.

4.8. François Vivares, engraving of a waterfall in Bolton Park, Yorkshire, 1753.

4.9. Richard Wilson, Distant View of the Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli, c. 1757.

5.1. Humphry Repton’s proposed scene for Babworth, from the Babworth Red Book.

5.2. Engraving by B. Baron after J. Rigaud of the parterre at Stowe, Buckinghamshire.

5.3. From Humphry Repton, Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, 1794.

5.4. Two contrasting etchings by B. T. Pouncy after Thomas Hearne, from Richard Payne Knight’s The Landscape, 1794.

5.5. Lancelot (“Capability”) Brown, plan for Heveningham Hall, 1762.

5.6. Repton’s proposed view of London from the grounds of Brandsbury, Middlesex.

5.7. Humphry Repton, inside front cover of the Red Book for Blaise Castle, showing his trade card in the middle, with sketches of the new entry lodge he designed and the folly or “castle” from which the estate took its name.

5.8. Humphry Repton, the “effect of a new house” in the landscape, Blaise Castle Red Book.

5.9. View of the park from the house at Blaise Castle before Repton’s landscaping, and the same view with the cottage revealed by clearing trees.

5.10. Views before and after removing the tunnel of trees along the drive which looks out over the River Severn at Blaise Castle.

6.1. Thomas Gainsborough, artist using a Claude glass, drawing.

6.2. “Furness-abbey,” from William Gilpin, Observations, relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, made in the year 1772 …

6.3. “An Artificial Peice of Rock-work,” from Stowe, The gardens … , 1750.

6.4. Anthony Walker after Balthasar Nebot, Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, from the park of Studley Royal, 1758.

6.5. Maria Catherina Prestel after Thomas Gainsborough, The Country Churchyard, aquatint, 1790.

6.6. William Gilpin, “The general idea of Keswick-lake,” from the manuscript of his Lakes Tour Notebook, 1772.

7.1. John Ruskin, page from his “Architectural Sketchbook.”

7.2. John Ruskin, page from one of his childhood journals.

7.3. John Ruskin, sheet from a letter.

8.1. Stanfield’s and Turner’s windmills, from Ruskin’s Modern Painters, 1898 edition.

8.2. Ruskin’s sketch of the Faido Pass, from Modern Painters.

8.3. Ruskin’s redrawing of Turner’s version of the scene in figure 8.2.

8.4. Engraving of an antique statue of a river god found in Rome, from Bernard de Montfaucon, L’antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures, 1722.

8.5. William Kent, design for the Chatsworth hillside, with river gods beside the two temples.

8.6. John Pye and Charles Heath after Turner, Pope’s Villa, engraving, 1811.

8.7. J. M. W. Turner, Thomson’s Æolian Harp, 1809.

8.8. The nymph of the grot, from Bernard de Montfaucon, L’antiquité expliquée.

8.9. William Kent, engraved frontispiece for Thomson’s “Spring,” 1730.

8.10. J. M. W. Turner, The Falls of the Clyde, 1802, watercolor.

8.11. J. M. W. Turner, The Falls of the Clyde, late 1830s, oil on canvas.

8.12. J. M. W. Turner, The Woodwalk, Farnley Hall, 1818.

9.1. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Garden in the Rue Cortot, 1876.

9.2. Engraving of Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, early 1860s.

9.3. Pierre Zandomenghi, Square d’Anvers, 1880.

9.4. Claude Monet, Le Jardin d’Enfant, 1867.

9.5. Edouard Manet, The Universal Exposition of 1867, 1867.

9.6. Berthe Morisot, View of Paris from the Trocadéro, 1872.

9.7. Claude Monet, View of Argenteuil (from the Artist’s Rented House), 1875.

9.8. Camille Pissarro, The Garden of Les Mathurins at Pontoise, 1876.

9.9. Bench in Monet’s garden at Giverny.

9.10. Claude Monet, Houses at the Edge of a Field, 1873.

9.11. Claude Monet, The Garden at Vétheuil, 1881.

9.12. Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater, On the Terrace, 1730s.

9.13. Claude Monet, Women in a Garden, 1867.

9.14. Claude Monet, Monet’s Garden at Argenteuil, 1872.

9.15. Claude Monet, The Luncheon, c. 1875.

9.16. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Monet Painting in His Garden, 1873.

9.17. Claude Monet, Camille Monet and Child in a Garden, 1875.

9.18. Berthe Morisot, In a Garden (Gathering Flowers), 1879.

9.19. Claude Monet, Garden Path at Giverny, 1902.

9.20. The old Bois de Boulogne, from Adolphe Alphand, Les Promenades de Paris, 1867-1873.

9.21. The new Bois de Boulogne, from William Robinson, The Parks, Promenades and Gardens of Paris, 1869.

9.22. P. Lambotte, “Colocasia Bataviensis,” from Alphand, Les Promenades de Paris.

9.23. William Robinson, “Fine-Leaved Plants in the Parc Monceau,” from The Parks, Promenades and Gardens of Paris.

9.24. Claude Monet, Gladioli, 1876.

9.25. Frontispiece by Alfred Parsons from William Robinson, The Wild Garden, 1881.

9.26. Monet’s garden at Giverny.

10.1. SWA Group, Mustang Square, Las Colinas, City of Irving, Texas.

10.2. Embankment Gardens, London.

10.3. Snow White gazes at the horizon in Monsieur Charles Pecqueur’s garden, from Bernard Lassus, Les Jardins Imaginaires, 1977.

10.4. Bernard Lassus, facades at Uckange, Lorraine, 1980s.

10.5. In Alexandre Chemetoff’s bamboo garden, Parc de La Villette, Paris.

10.6. Ian Hamilton Finlay, Country Lane with Stiles, Glasgow Garden Festival, 1988.

10.7. Ian Hamilton Finlay, Country Lane with Stiles, Glasgow Garden Festival, 1988.

11.1. Speakers’ Corner, Hyde Park, London.

11.2. Attributed to Rowland Lockey, Sir Thomas More and His Family, 1600.

11.3. Ambrosius Holbein, garden scene placed at the start of Book One of the 1518 edition of More’s Utopia.

11.4. Engraving of the Vatican Gardens, Rome, from Bonanni’s Templi Vaticani Fabricam, 1696.

11.5. Jan Massys, Venus Cytherea, 1651.

11.6. View toward the temple from the “monster garden,” Bomarzo.

11.7. Jan Brueghel the Younger, The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1626.

11.8. Seventeenth-century engraved view of the Hortus Botanicus at Leiden.

11.9. Title page of John Parkinson’s Theatrum Botanicum, 1640.

11.10. Unknown artist, The Yarmouth Collection, seventeenth century.

11.11. Matthaeus Merian, engraving of the Hortus Palatinus at Heidelberg, 1620.

11.12. St. Augustine preaches of the City of God. Utrecht Codex [MS 42], c. 1465-1474.

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Description: Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture

BOOKGardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture

John Dixon Hunt

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00056

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16670

John Dixon Hunt is widely considered one of the foremost writers on the history and theory of gardens and landscape architecture. Gardens and the Picturesque collects 11 of Hunt's essays—several of them never before published—that deal with the ways in which men and women have given meaning to gardens and landscapes, especially with the ways in which gardens have represented the world of nature "picturesquely." Ranging over subjects from the cult of the picturesque to verbal-visual parallels within gardens, from allegorical imagery to landscape painting, these essays brilliantly invoke Hunt's fascination with the idea of the garden both as a milieu—by which gardens become the most eloquent expressions of complex cultural ideas—and as a site of cultural translation, whereby one period shapes for its own purposes the ideas and forms inherited from its predecessors. From Castle Howard in Yorkshire to French impressionist gardens the essays deal with several crucial aspects of the picturesque controversy, how practical applications of the Picturesque taste affected people's treaty with and experience of landscape gardens and even the larger landscape—this last is tracked through the work of the great painter J. M. W. Turner and his talented commentator, John Ruskin, as well as through the garden designs of Humphry Repton and the lingering debts to the picturesque movement that haunt modernist theory. The book concludes with a consideration of the utopian aspirations and views of the garden in different societies.

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John Dixon Hunt

PublisherMIT Press

Print publication date June 1992 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780262082112

EISBN 9780300241327

Copyright© 1992 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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