Main entry:

Mowl, Tim.

Title & Author:

Gentlemen & players : gardeners of the English landscape / Timothy Mowl.

Publication:

Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton, ©2000.

Description:

xiv, 218 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-209) and index.
INTROD. Imagining arcady -- Ch. 1 Inigo Jones : the stage designer as gardener -- Ch. 2 Samuel Hartlib and the gardens of pansophic reason -- Ch. 3 John Beale and a puritan vision of landscape gardens -- Ch. 4 The gardens of the Evelyns : George, John and Captain George -- Ch. 5 George London and Henry Wise : garden design as big business -- Ch. 6 Sir John Vanbrugh, Charles Bridgeman and the rise of the temples -- Ch. 7 Addison, Switzer and 'that inexpressible somewhat' -- Ch. 8 Alexander Pope and the 'genius of the place' -- Ch. 9 Lord Burlington, William Kent and an arcadian picturesque -- Ch. 10 Southcote, Shenstone, Spence and the arcadian Ferme Ornée -- Ch. 11 Gentlemen in control : the 'Rococo' garden -- Ch. 12 Capability Brown : the professional and his ideal English parkscape -- Ch. 13 The wild men of the Welsh Border : Richard Payne Knight and Uvedale Price -- Ch. 14 Humphry Repton : public relations and the gardenesque.

Summary:

"Gentlemen and Players: Gardeners of the English Landscape traces the development of garden style through the owners who projected them and the gardeners who worked in them. There was an interchange of ideas, technologies and discoveries as theories were absorbed, popularised and then discarded in a fascinating sequence of action and reaction." "Two special features of the book are the garden 'tours', one for each designer or group of designers, and key texts by the gardeners themselves. These offer recreations of the grounds in their prime and allow us a close insight into the moods of their conception. Richly illustrated in colour and black and white, with contemporary reproductions, plans and modern photographs, and with a comprehensive bibliography, this book is essential reading for students of the history of art and architecture, garden and cultural history. It will also prove a stimulating and enjoyable companion for visitors to historic gardens, and interested gardeners everywhere."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0750923245
9780750923248
0750923425
9780750923422
0750923423

Subject:

Landscape architects England.
Gardens England Design.
Landscape gardening England History.
Gardens England History.
Architectes paysagistes Angleterre.
Gardens Design.
Landscape architects.
Landscape gardening.
England.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Gentlemen and players
Gardeners of the English landscape

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217366
Call No.: SB469.35.E6 M6 2000
Status: Available