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The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden

Beautiful Objects and Agreeable Retreats

By: Kate Felus

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The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden

Beautiful Objects and Agreeable Retreats

By: Kate Felus

Georgian landscape gardens are among the most visited and enjoyed of the UK's historical treasures. The Georgian garden has also been hailed as the greatest British contribution to European Art, seen as a beautiful composition created from grass, trees and water - a landscape for contemplation. But scratch below the surface and history reveals these gardens were a lot less serene and, in places, a great deal more scandalous.Beautifully illustrated in colour and black & white, this book is about the daily life of the Georgian garden. It reveals its previously untold secrets from early morning rides through to evening amorous liaisons. It explains how by the eighteenth century there was a desire to escape the busy country house where privacy was at a premium, and how these gardens evolved aesthetically, with modestly-sized, far-flung temples and other eye-catchers, to cater for escape and solitude as well as food, drink, music and fireworks. Its publication coincides with the 2016 tercentenary of the birth of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, arguably Britain's greatest ever landscape gardener, and the book is uniquely positioned to put Brown's work into its social context.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786730073

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9781786730077

The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden

Beautiful Objects and Agreeable Retreats

By: Kate Felus

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The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden

Beautiful Objects and Agreeable Retreats

By: Kate Felus

Georgian landscape gardens are among the most visited and enjoyed of the UK's historical treasures. The Georgian garden has also been hailed as the greatest British contribution to European Art, seen as a beautiful composition created from grass, trees and water - a landscape for contemplation. But scratch below the surface and history reveals these gardens were a lot less serene and, in places, a great deal more scandalous.Beautifully illustrated in colour and black & white, this book is about the daily life of the Georgian garden. It reveals its previously untold secrets from early morning rides through to evening amorous liaisons. It explains how by the 18th century there was a desire to escape the busy country house where privacy was at a premium, and how these gardens evolved aesthetically, with modestly-sized, far-flung temples and other eye-catchers, to cater for escape and solitude as well as food, drink, music and fireworks.

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240

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Bloomsbury Academic

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135017159X

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9781350171596

Riding School

Bind-Up

By: Kate Needham,Lucy Smith

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Riding School

Bind-Up

By: Kate Needham,Lucy Smith

Text and illustrations provide information about various aspects of riding and pony care, with advice on buying a horse, grooming and stable management, showing, and jumping.

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136

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E.D.C. Publishing

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0746029292

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9780746029299

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