Name/Title
British and American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century: Eighteen Illustrated Essays on Garden HistoryEntry/Object ID
2014.002.047Secondary Title
British & American Gardens in the 18th Century: Eighteen Illustrated Essays on Garden HistoryDescription
Essays and illustrations that show how British and American gardens of the 18th century developed and why.
Contents: "Bursting prospect": British garden history now by Morris R. Brownell -- The nomenclature of style in garden history by Kenneth Woodbridge -- Pope's Twickenham revisited by John Dixon Hung -- An eighteenth-century view of Pope's Villa by Arthur J. Weitzman -- The Ferme Ornee and changing attitudes to agricultural improvement by William A. Brogden -- The high phase of English landscape gardening by Mavis Batey -- Parnell's garden tours: Hagley and the Leasowes by James Sambrook -- Nature as the bride of art: The design and structure of Painshill by Michael Symes -- The Volcano: Culmination of the landscape garden by Christopher Thacker -- The American garden at Millburn Tower by A.A. Tait -- The picturesque in the American garden and landscape before 1800 by James D. Kornwolf -- "Long and assiduous endeavors": Gardening in early eighteenth-century Virginia by Peter Martin -- People and plants: North Carolina's garden history revisited by John Flowers -- Eighteenth-century New England garden design: The pictorial evidence y Abbott Lowell Cummings -- Town and country gardens in eighteenth-century Philadelphia by Elizabeth McLean -- Gardens and landscapes in eighteenth-century South Carolina by George C. Rogers Jr. -- Landscape archaeology: A key to Virginia's cultivated past by William M. Kelso -- The temple in the garden: Thomas Jefferson's vision of the Monticello landscape by William L. Beiswanger.
188 p., [92] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation LibraryAcquisition
Accession
2014.002Source or Donor
New Library Catalog Records (2014)Acquisition Method
Found in CollectionLexicon
Search Terms
Gardens, American--History--18th century, Gardens, British--History--1863-1877Book Details
Author
Martin, Peter, 1940-, Maccubbin, Robert P.Publisher
Colonial Williamsburg FoundationDate Published
circa 1984Call No.
SB457.54 .B75 1984ISBN
0879351055LCCN
84004252Notes
Copy No.: 0Location
Category
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023General Notes
Note
Notes: Edited by Robert P. Maccubbin and Peter Martin.
"Published simultaneously as volume VIII, n.s., 2 of Eighteenth-century life by the College of William and Mary"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographies.Created By
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September 25, 2014Updated By
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February 16, 2023