The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden, 1620-1820John Dixon Hunt, Peter Willis Presents an anthology and commentary on the English landscape garden. |
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The English Landscape Garden, 1620-1820 John Dixon Hunt, Peter Willis. 41 Ermenonville , near Paris . Engraving of Rousseau's tomb on an island of poplars , and Temple of Philosophy , from Laborde , Description des Nouveaux Jardins de la ...
The English Landscape Garden, 1620-1820 John Dixon Hunt, Peter Willis. 41 Ermenonville , near Paris . Engraving of Rousseau's tomb on an island of poplars , and Temple of Philosophy , from Laborde , Description des Nouveaux Jardins de la ...
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... garden : set on an island of poplars , it can be glimpsed from the shore as if it were a fragment of antique marble in some landscape by Hubert Robert . Like those shrines to Augustan poets in English gardens - Thomson's seat at Hagley ...
... garden : set on an island of poplars , it can be glimpsed from the shore as if it were a fragment of antique marble in some landscape by Hubert Robert . Like those shrines to Augustan poets in English gardens - Thomson's seat at Hagley ...
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... garden design , but see S. Lang , ' The genesis of the English landscape garden ' , op . cit . , pp . 22-9 . 49 See , among other works , the excellent discussion of Locke's contribution to romanticism in Ernest Tuveson's The ...
... garden design , but see S. Lang , ' The genesis of the English landscape garden ' , op . cit . , pp . 22-9 . 49 See , among other works , the excellent discussion of Locke's contribution to romanticism in Ernest Tuveson's The ...
Contents
Part | 47 |
JOHN EVELYN 16201706 | 57 |
ANDREW MARVELL 162178 | 68 |
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