Charles Watkins, Ben Cowell

Uvedale Price (1747-1829)

Decoding the Picturesque

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first biography of the 18th-century landscape gardener, Uvedale Price, showing the key interconnections between his roles as landowner, art collector, forester, landscaper, connoisseur and scholar.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 174mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 900g
• ISBN-13: 9781843837084
• ISBN-10: 1843837080
• Artikelnr.: 34112231

Autorenporträt

Charles Watkins, Ben Cowell

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 'The greatest variety of prospects' 'Macarony of the Age' 'The
improvement of real landscape' 'The Great Guns of Taste' Picturesque
Designs Property and Landscape 'Mr Price the Picturesque' 'Distant paths of
leafy secretness' Conclusion Bibliography