Research Catalog

Title

Gentlemen & players : gardeners of the English landscape / Timothy Mowl.

Author

Mowl, Tim.

Publication

Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton, c2000.

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Description

xiv, 218 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, plans; 25 cm.

Summary

"Gentlemen and Players: Gardeners of the English Landscape traces the development of garden style through the owners who projected them and the gardeners who worked in them. There was an interchange of ideas, technologies and discoveries as theories were absorbed, popularised and then discarded in a fascinating sequence of action and reaction." "Two special features of the book are the garden 'tours', one for each designer or group of designers, and key texts by the gardeners themselves. These offer recreations of the grounds in their prime and allow us a close insight into the moods of their conception. Richly illustrated in colour and black and white, with contemporary reproductions, plans and modern photographs, and with a comprehensive bibliography, this book is essential reading for students of the history of art and architecture, garden and cultural history. It will also prove a stimulating and enjoyable companion for visitors to historic gardens, and interested gardeners everywhere."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

• Gentlemen and players
• Gardeners of the English landscape

Subject

• Landscape architects > England
• Gardens > England > Design
• Landscape gardening > England > History
• Landscape architecture > England > History

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-209) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

INTROD. Imagining arcady -- Ch. 1 Inigo Jones : the stage designer as gardener -- Ch. 2 Samuel Hartlib and the gardens of pansophic reason -- Ch. 3 John Beale and a puritan vision of landscape gardens -- Ch. 4 The gardens of the Evelyns : George, John and Captain George -- Ch. 5 George London and Henry Wise : garden design as big business -- Ch. 6 Sir John Vanbrugh, Charles Bridgeman and the rise of the temples -- Ch. 7 Addison, Switzer and 'that inexpressible somewhat' -- Ch. 8 Alexander Pope and the 'genius of the place' -- Ch.9 Lord Burlington, William Kent and an arcadian picturesque -- Ch. 10 Southcote, Shenstone, Spence and the arcadian Ferme Ornée -- Ch. 11 Gentlemen in control : the 'Rococo' garden -- Ch. 12 Capability Brown : the professional and his ideal English parkscape -- Ch. 13 The wild men of the Welsh Border : Richard Payne Knight and Uvedale Price -- Ch. 14 Humphry Repton : public relations and the gardenesque.

ISBN

• 0750923245
• 9780750923248

OCLC

44533267

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library