Item #385240 Sir John Vanbrugh and landscape architecture in Baroque England, 1690-1730 / [edited by] Christopher Ridgway & Robert Williams ; introductory essay by Kerry Downes. Christopher. Williams Ridgway, Robert.

Sir John Vanbrugh and landscape architecture in Baroque England, 1690-1730 / [edited by] Christopher Ridgway & Robert Williams ; introductory essay by Kerry Downes

2000, 1st edition. Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton in association with the National Trust. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #385240
ISBN: 0750921900

Physical description; xiv, 242 pp., illustrations, maps, portraits, 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Vanbrugh over fifty years / Kerry Downes -- Estate management and landscape design / Tom Williamson -- The formal garden / David Jacques -- Fortified gardens / Robert Williams -- Antiquaries, theatre and early medievalism / Timothy Mowl -- Exotics and botanical illustration / Mark Laird -- Vanbrugh's India and his mausolea for England / Robert Williams -- "After ye antique" : Vanbrugh, Hawksmoor and Kent / Giles Worsley -- Stephen Switzer and water gardens / Judith Roberts -- Rethinking the picturesque / Christopher Ridgway -- Remembering Vanbrugh / Derek Linstrum. Subjects; Vanbrugh, John 1664-1726. Influence. Landscape architecture and design England History 18th century. Garden structures.

Price: €35.00

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