Description
| Product ID: | 9780747810490 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | IN |
| Series: | Shire Library |
| Title: | Capability Brown and the English Landscape Garden |
| Authors: | Author: Laura Mayer |
| Page Count: | 64 |
| Subjects: | Individual architects and architectural firms, Individual architects & architectural firms, Landscape architecture and design, Landscape art & architecture, England, c 1700 to c 1800 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The name Lancelot 'Capability' Brown has become synonymous with the eighteenth-century English landscape garden: between 1751 and 1783 his consultancy handled over 170 major commissions. Ruthlessly efficient, he could stake out the 'capabilities' of a particular terrain within an hour on horseback. The name Lancelot ''Capability'' Brown has become synonymous with the eighteenth-century English landscape garden: between 1751 and 1783 his consultancy handled over 170 major commissions. Ruthlessly efficient, he could stake out the ''capabilities'' of a particular terrain within an hour on horseback. Rising to the position of Master Gardener to George III, his trademark features included bald lawns, clumped trees, undulating lakes and enclosing belts of woodland on the estate''s perimeter. With this standard park formula Brown and his followers held the commercial monopoly on garden design well into the following century, resisting the more rugged topography advocated by Richard Payne Knight''s new generation of Romantics. |
| Imprint Name: | Shire Publications |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-07-10 |
