English garden eccentrics : three hundred years of extraordinary groves, burrowings, mountains and menageries / Todd Longstaffe-Gowan.
"In his new book, English Garden Eccentrics, renowned landscape architect and historian Todd Longstaffe-Gowan reveals a series of obscure and eccentric English garden-makers who, between the early seventeenth and the early twentieth centuries, created intensely personal and idiosyncratic gardens. Th...
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London :
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art,
2022.
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| Physical Description: | vii, 392 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
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Contents:
- Introduction
- The 'Enston-Rock' : ‘A Mad Gim-cracke Sure'
- Lady Broughton's 'Miniature Copy of the Swiss Glaciers'
- Friar Park : ‘Alpinism at Home'
- Sir Charles Isham's Gardens at Lamport Hall : 'A Disconcerting Eruption'
- Topiary on a Gargantuan Scale : The Clipped 'Yew-trees' at Four Ancient London Churchyards
- Lord Petersham's Gardens at Elvaston Castle : 'A Modern Palagonia'
- The Countess of Dudley's 'Stop and Buy' Topiaries
- Lady Reade and her 'Gaudy Natives of the Tropics'
- Lady Dorothy Nevill and her Ephemeral 'Exotic Groves'
- Brookes's Vivarium : 'A Curious Assemblage of Life and Death'
- Russell Collett and Sir Robert Heron : Gardens and Goldfish
- Charles Waterton : 'Unwearied Outdoor Observer'
- Antediluvian Antiquities at Banwell Caves and Pleasure Gardens
- Hawkstone : 'A Kind of Turbulent Pleasure between Fright and Admiration'
- The Burrowing Duke at Harcourt House
- Denbies : 'A Persuasive Penitentiary'
- 'Do You Know Thomas Bland?'
- Stukeley's Travelling Gardens
- West Wycombe Park : 'Pretty, but very Whimsical'
- Dr Phené's 'Senseless and Bewildering Accumulation of Incongruous Things'
- Bedford's Modern Garden of Eden
- Coda: The Present Status of the Gardens.