Horace Walpole: Gardenist: An Edition of Walpole's The History of the Modern Taste in Gardening, with an Estimate of Walpole's Contribution to Landscape Architecture |
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... English Garden to his translation of Du Fresnoy's De Arte Graphica , for it is here that the link between gardening and painting may be most directly traced , not only as it in- fluenced Mason's ideas , but eighteenth - century taste in ...
... English Garden to his translation of Du Fresnoy's De Arte Graphica , for it is here that the link between gardening and painting may be most directly traced , not only as it in- fluenced Mason's ideas , but eighteenth - century taste in ...
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... English could learn much from Chinese garden theory . Walpole in particular was violently opposed to this idea . Both men , while not advocating Brown's extremes , preferred his work to that of Chambers.1 Actually , each of the three ...
... English could learn much from Chinese garden theory . Walpole in particular was violently opposed to this idea . Both men , while not advocating Brown's extremes , preferred his work to that of Chambers.1 Actually , each of the three ...
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... English gardening gains ground here prodigiously . . . . There is a Monsieur Boutin , who has tacked a piece of what he calls an English garden to a set of stone terraces , with steps of turf . There are three or four very high hills ...
... English gardening gains ground here prodigiously . . . . There is a Monsieur Boutin , who has tacked a piece of what he calls an English garden to a set of stone terraces , with steps of turf . There are three or four very high hills ...
Contents
EXPLANATORY NOTES | 41 |
THE BEAUTY OF IRREGULARITY AND ITALIAN | 85 |
THE THREE SISTER ARTS AND THE PICTURESQUE | 105 |
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