Capability Brown and Humphry Repton
by Hyams, Edward
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0460038095
- ISBN 13
- 9780460038096
- Seller
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Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Inspired by French and Italian landscape painting, a number of eighteenth-century artist-gardeners led by William Kent created an art-form unique in the West, althought favoured from times of antiquity in China and Japan: the picturesque garden - virtually a landscape picture made not of paint on canvas but of real country and buildings. Towering above the rest of the professional practitioners of this art, in terms both of genius and industry, were two remarkable men, Capability Brown and his successor Humphry Repton. Both transformed many thousands of acres of England and Wales from 'natural' into 'picturesque' landscape; both , in the course of their work, met many of the leading men of their day, and George III made a friend of Brown; both, in their different ways, exerted a lasting influence on other landscape designers, including those of America and Europe.
Very good condition hb with original dustcover. Unmarked clean copy. Dustcover with slight fading to spine and minor bumps and scuffs.
Very good condition hb with original dustcover. Unmarked clean copy. Dustcover with slight fading to spine and minor bumps and scuffs.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ari Dictum (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 281
- Title
- Capability Brown and Humphry Repton
- Author
- Hyams, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Red cloth with black and gilt tooling
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0460038095
- ISBN 13
- 9780460038096
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Gardening gardens Georgian George
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