The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 1720-1800 by Mark Laird

The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 1720-1800

Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture

Mark Laird

464 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction design history informative medium-paced

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The park of lawns, trees, and serpentine lakes in a picturesque composition of greens has long been viewed as the enduring achievement of eighteenth-century English landscape art. Yet this conventional view of the picturesque style ignores the col...

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