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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... mountains , fatten in the vernal warmth of this rich pasturage . My villa is large enough to afford all desirable accomodations , without being extensive ... .. " The gestatio [ which surrounds the garden ] is en- compassed with a box ...
... mountains , fatten in the vernal warmth of this rich pasturage . My villa is large enough to afford all desirable accomodations , without being extensive ... .. " The gestatio [ which surrounds the garden ] is en- compassed with a box ...
Page 96
... mountains , torrents , wolves , rumblings , Salvator Rosa - the pomp of our park and the meekness of our palace ... mountain , and surrounded with others , all shagged with hanging woods , obscured with pines , or lost in clouds ! Below ...
... mountains , torrents , wolves , rumblings , Salvator Rosa - the pomp of our park and the meekness of our palace ... mountain , and surrounded with others , all shagged with hanging woods , obscured with pines , or lost in clouds ! Below ...
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... mountain roll'd in confusion ; beneath you , & stretching far away to the right , the shining purity of the Lake , just ruffled by the breeze enough to shew it is alive , reflecting rocks , woods , fields , & inverted tops of mountains ...
... mountain roll'd in confusion ; beneath you , & stretching far away to the right , the shining purity of the Lake , just ruffled by the breeze enough to shew it is alive , reflecting rocks , woods , fields , & inverted tops of mountains ...
Contents
EXPLANATORY NOTES | 41 |
THE BEAUTY OF IRREGULARITY AND ITALIAN | 85 |
THE THREE SISTER ARTS AND THE PICTURESQUE | 105 |
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aesthetic Anecdotes of Painting artists Bridgeman buildings cascades century Chambers charm Claude Lorrain criticism delightful edition eighteenth eighteenth-century England English Garden flowers formal garden French garden design George Montagu Gilpin Gothic ground groves Hagley Henry Seymour Conway history of gardening Horace Mann Horace Walpole Ibid ideas improvements interest irregularity Italian Landscape Kent Kent's land landscape architecture landscape design Landscape Gardening landscape painting lawn letter London Lord Manwaring Modern Gardening Modern Taste mountains natural landscape Observations on Modern original ornamented painter park parterre planted poem poet poetry Pope Pope's praise principles Richard Bentley river Salvator Rosa scape scene scenery serpentine shade Shenstone Shenstone's shrubs Strawberry Hill style Taste in Gardening Temple theory tion translation trees Twickenham variety walks Walpole Water-color Drawing Whately Whately's William Mason William Pars wood wrote