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List of illustrations

  • Plate depicting cattle, from his picturesque "Observations" on the Lake District
  • Cartoon
  • The classical gateway and Gothic seat
  • The garden front of Rousham House
  • The façade of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
  • Plan of Castle Howard, based on early eighteenth-century estate plans
  • The Carrmire Gate, Castle Howard
  • The Pyramid Gate, Castle Howard
  • The Ruined Woodstock Manor at Blenheim
  • Design of a temple for Castle Howard
  • The Temple of the Four Winds, Castle Howard
  • The Villa Ludovisi, from Falda, "Li Giardini di Roma," 1683
  • Detail of the reconstruction of the Temple of Fortune
  • Castle Howard, from Colen Campbell, "Vitruvius Britannicus," vol. 3, 1725
  • The ancient manner of Temples in Groves
  • Proposal for Wray Wood, Castle Howard
  • Second proposal for Wray Wood, Castle Howard
  • Third proposal for Wray Wood, Castle Howard
  • Lunette depicting the Villa of Pratolino
  • Distant view of the Temple of the Four Winds from the site of the vanished Temple of Venus, Castle Howard
  • Bridge and distant Mausoleum from the Temple of the Four Winds, Castle Howard
  • Pyramid in Pretty Wood Castle Wood
  • Four Faces in Pretty Wood, Castle Howard
  • Capriccio landscape with Hampton Court Palace and Esher Place
  • The Pyramid, Castle Howard
  • A general prospect of Vaux Halls Gardens, from Stow's "Survey of London," 1754
  • View of the canal, Chinese building, and Rotunda in Ranelagh Gardens
  • Vauxhall, the Temple of Cosmos
  • Hillside Amphitheater at Wilton, from Isaac de Caus, "Le Jardin du Wilton," c. 1645
  • Water Theater, Villa Mondragone, Frascati, from Falda, "Le Fontane di Roma" (Rome, 1675–1691)
  • Vauxhall, a view of the Centre Cross Walk, from the grangerized "History of Vauxhall Gardens," 1890, I, 78
  • Claremont amphitheater
  • Topiary arches and "shutters" to the George II column, Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire
  • Garden backdrop for a masque
  • Sketch for a set for Arsinoë, Queen of Cyprus
  • Plan for Stowe
  • Stowe: the Temple of British Worthies
  • Stowe: the Temple of Ancient Virtue
  • Stowe: engraving of the Temple of Modern Virtue
  • Plan of Pope's Garden at Twickenham
  • View of Hammels, Hertfordshire (detail)
  • Stowe: the Gothick Temple, or Temple of Liberty
  • Pope's obelisk to his mother's memory in his gardens at Twickenham
  • Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake
  • Great Obelisk in Chiswick Gardens
  • Visitors at Gibbs's Building in the grounds of Stowe, Buckinghamshire (detail)
  • The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace…Imitated (London, 1733), 16–17
  • The Muses (preparatory study)
  • Landscape with Apollo, the Muses, and River God
  • Waterfall in Bolton Park, Yorkshire
  • Distant View of the Villa of Maecenas' at Tivoli
  • Proposed scene for Babworth, from the Babworth Red Book
  • The parterre at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, published by Sarah Bridgeman
  • From "Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening," 1794, facing p. 18
  • From Richard Payne Knight's "The Landscape," 1794
  • Plan for Heveningham Hall
  • Proposed View of London from the grounds of Brandsbury, Middlesex, Brandsbury Red Book, 1789, folio 13
  • Inside front cover of the Red Book for Blaise Castle
  • Inside front cover of the Red Book for Blaise Castle
  • The "effect of a new house" in the landscape, Blaise Castle Red Book
  • View of the park from the house at Blaise Castle before Repton's landscaping
  • View of the park from the house at Blaise Castle after Repton's landscaping
  • View before removing the tunnel of trees along the drive which looks out over the River Severn at Blaise Castle
  • View after removing the tunnel of trees along the drive which looks out over the River Severn at Blaise Castle
  • Artist using a Claude glass
  • Furness-abbey, from William Gilpin, "Observations" (London, 1792)
  • An Artificial Peice [sic] of Rock-work, from "Stow. The gardens…" (Buckingham: B. Seeley, 1750)
  • Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, from the park of Studley Royal
  • The Country Churchyard
  • The general idea of Keswick-lake
  • Page 126 from Architectural Sketchbook
  • Page from childhood journal (poetry notebook IX)
  • Sheet from a letter
  • Stanfield's windmills, from Ruskin's "Modern Painters," 1898 ed.
  • Turner's windmills, from Ruskin's "Modern Painters," 1898 ed.
  • Sketch of the Faido Pass, from Modern Painters
  • Redrawing of Turner's version of the Faido Pass
  • Antique statue of a river god found in Rome, from Bernard de Montfaucon, "L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures" (Paris, 1722)
  • Proposal for the hillside at Chatsworth
  • Pope's Villa
  • Thomson's Æolian Harp
  • The nymph of the grot, from Bernard de Montfaucon, L'antiquité expliquée
  • Frontispiece to Spring
  • The Falls of the Clyde
  • The Falls of the Clyde
  • The Woodwalk, Farnley Hall
  • The Garden in the Rue Cortot, Montmartre
  • Boulevard Richard-Lenoir
  • Square d'Anvers
  • Garden of the Princess, Louvre
  • View of the Paris World's Fair
  • View of Paris from the Trocadéro
  • View of Argenteuil (from the Artist's Rented House)
  • The Garden of Les Mathurins at Pontoise
  • Bench in Monet's garden at Giverny
  • Houses in Argenteuil
  • The Garden at Vétheuil
  • On the Terrace
  • Women in a Garden
  • The Artist's House at Argenteuil
  • The Luncheon (decorative panel)
  • Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil
  • Camille Monet and a Child in the Artist's Garden in Argenteuil
  • In the Bois de Boulogne
  • Garden Path at Giverny
  • The old Bois de Boulogne, from Adolphe Alphand, "Les Promenades de Paris" (Paris, 1867–1873)
  • The new Bois de Boulogne, from William Robinson, "The Parks, Promenades and Gardens of Paris" (London, 1869)
  • Colocasia Bataviensis, from Alphand, Les Promenades de Paris
  • Fine-Leaved Plants in the Parc Monceau, pl. XV from The Parks, Promenades and Gardens of Paris
  • Rounded Flower Bed (Corbeille de fleurs)
  • Frontispiece from William Robinson, "The Wild Garden" (1881)
  • Monet's Garden at Giverny
  • Mustang Square
  • Embankment Gardens
  • Snow White gazes at the horizon in Monsieur Charles Pecqueur's garden, from Bernard Lassus, "Les Jardins Imaginaires" (Paris, 1977)
  • Facades at Uckange, Lorraine
  • Bamboo garden, Parc de La Villette
  • Country Lane with Stiles, Glasgow Garden Festival
  • Country Lane with Stiles, Glasgow Garden Festival
  • Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park, London
  • Sir Thomas More and His Family
  • Garden Scene placed at start of Book One of the 1518 edition of More's Utopia
  • Vatican Gardens, Rome, from Bonanni's "Templi Vaticani Fabricam" (Rome, 1696)
  • Venus Cytherea
  • View toward the temple from the "monster garden
  • The Garden of Earthly Delights
  • View of the Hortus Botanicus at Leiden
  • Title page of John Parkinson's "Theatrum Botanicum," 1640
  • The Paston Treasure
  • Hortus Palatinus at Heidelberg
  • St. Augustine preaches of the City of God, Utrecht Codex [MS 42]
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Description: Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture
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Description: Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture
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Description: Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture
~This volume gathers together six essays published between 1971 and 1985, one published in an Italian translation in 1990, and four hitherto unpublished lectures of recent years, revised for this collection. Together they offer analyses of various moments in garden history, and specifically of the relationship of gardens, garden design, and garden theory to various...
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Description: Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture
~~By way of orientation to this collection of essays, it is worth announcing, somewhat schematically, four themes that they have in common. The first, and the lengthiest, concerns how we process the so-called natural or physical world for our consumption. The second briefly addresses gardens as an art of milieu—how gardens, where...
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~~This collection of essays reexplores territory which Christopher Hussey opened up for modern scholarship with The Picturesque: Studies in a Point of View (1927) and English Gardens and Landscapes, 1700-1750 (1967). The forty years which elapsed between these two benchmarks in the history and analysis of landscape taste,...
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~~A subtitle for this essay might be “About Vauxhall and Ranelagh.” These London pleasure gardens will serve as text, pretext, and context; to write “about” them is to explore a whole congeries of forms, themes, and...
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~~The progress of landscape gardening in the eighteenth century is, as everyone knows, closely connected with literary history. Their relationship is celebrated in Horace Walpole’s apophthegm: “Poetry, Painting, and Gardening,...
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In 1807 Robert Southey confirmed what had been apparent for some years, that “a taste for the picturesque...
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~~The special place of Humphry Repton in the history of English landscape gardening is only beginning to be recognized. Since this essay was first published in 1978, Repton studies have been...
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~~The eighteenth century is so specially a watershed between Renaissance and modernism that its artistic culture is susceptible to both atavistic and progressive interpretations. However,...
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~~John Ruskin’s earliest tastes for architecture and landscape were formed by the picturesque movement. He therefore provides a usefully specific instance of some of the more general ideas raised in the previous essay. His particular perspectives upon how we read or respond to buildings and scenery (treated most...
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~~This essay is about how we read Turner’s landscape paintings, especially those which picture country estates. I use “read” about Turner’s landscape paintings for a variety of reasons. First, because his paint upon the canvas is in two respects like words upon the page—it is a symbolic language...
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Gardens were a favorite subject of impressionist painters. Their rich and fecund images of a blooming, apparently natural world, often engulfing the human figures enclosed within it (fig. 9.1), have in their turn become a source of delight today. The huge modern popularity of impressionist renderings of gardens and other landscapes both derives from and fuels a...
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~~The crucial moment of modernism occurred not circa 1900 but rather one hundred years earlier. This is when Yve-Alain Bois in a provocative article on the picturesque dates “the rupture of modernity.” Yve-Alain Bois, “A Picturesque Stroll...
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~~Speakers’ Corner is aptly located in Hyde Park, which is historically the extended garden of Kensington Palace (fig. 11.1). This privileged place of utopian discourse, where proposals to right the wrongs of this world are formulated and entertained, would be unthinkable outside the green world...
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