Ichnographia Rustica; Or, The Nobleman, Gentleman, and Gardener's Recreation

Ichnographia Rustica; Or, The Nobleman, Gentleman, and Gardener's Recreation
Title Ichnographia Rustica; Or, The Nobleman, Gentleman, and Gardener's Recreation PDF eBook
Author Stephen Switzer
Publisher
Pages 304
Release 1718
Genre Agriculture
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Ichnographia, or the nobleman, gentleman, and gardener's recreation, containing directions for the general distribution of a country seat ... and a general system of agriculture; illustrated with ... copper plates

Ichnographia, or the nobleman, gentleman, and gardener's recreation, containing directions for the general distribution of a country seat ... and a general system of agriculture; illustrated with ... copper plates
Title Ichnographia, or the nobleman, gentleman, and gardener's recreation, containing directions for the general distribution of a country seat ... and a general system of agriculture; illustrated with ... copper plates PDF eBook
Author Stephen SWITZER
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Pages 304
Release 1718
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Ichnographia Rustica

Ichnographia Rustica
Title Ichnographia Rustica PDF eBook
Author William Alvis Brogden
Publisher Routledge
Pages 551
Release 2017-02-17
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1317119193

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One of the most significant occurrences in the history of design was the creation of the English Landscape Garden. Accounts of its genesis...the surprising structural change from the formal to a seeming informal are numerous. But none has ever been quite convincing and none satisfactorily placed the contributions of Stephen Switzer. Unlike his contemporaries, Switzer - an 18th century author of books on gardening and agricultural improvement - grasped a quite new principle: that the fashionable pursuit of great gardens should be "rural and extensive", rather than merely the ornamentation of a particular part of an estate. Switzer saw that a whole estate could be enjoyed as an aesthetic experience, and by the process of improving its value, could increase wealth. By encouraging improvers to see the garden in his enlarged sense, he opened up the adjoining countryside, the landscape, and made the whole a subject of unified design. Some few followed his advice immediately, such as Bathurst at Cirencester. But it took some time for his ideas to become generally accepted. Could this vision, and its working out in practice between 1710 and 1740 be the very reason for such changes? 300 years after the first volume of his writings began to be published; this book offers a timely critical examination of lessons learned and Switzer’s roles. In major influential early works at Castle Howard and Blenheim, and later the more "minor" works such as Spy Park, Leeswood or Rhual, the relationships between these designs and his writings is demonstrated. In doing so, it makes possible major reassessment of the developments, and thus our attitudes to well-known works. It provides an explanation of how he, and his colleagues and contemporaries first made what he had called Ichnographia Rustica, or more familiarly Modern Gardening from the mid-1740s, land later landscape gardens. It reveals an exceptional innovator, who by transforming the philosophical way in which nature was viewed, integrated good design with good farming and horticultural practice for the first time. It raises the issue of the cleavage in thought of the later 18th century, essentially whether the ferme ornee as the mixture of utile and dulci was the perfect designed landscape, or whether this was the enlarged garden with features of "unadorned nature"? The book discusses these considerable and continuing contrary influences on later work, and suggests Switzer has many lessons for how contemporary landscape and garden design ought be perceived and practised.

Catalogue

Catalogue
Title Catalogue PDF eBook
Author Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher
Pages 982
Release 1901
Genre Antiquarian booksellers
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The Dream of the North

The Dream of the North
Title The Dream of the North PDF eBook
Author Peter Fjagesund
Publisher Rodopi
Pages 569
Release 2014-05-10
Genre History
ISBN 9401210829

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Northern Europe and North America have dominated the world stage for more than two centuries. Using a wide range of sources, this book provides the first coherent account from a multi-national perspective of the ideas and perceptions that, from the Renaissance onwards, fuelled the North’s rise to prominence, and enabled it to rival the traditional cultural and political hegemony of the South. This includes not only the fascinating conquest of the polar regions, but also the religious upheaval of the Reformation, the changing view of nature engendered by Romanticism, and, not least, the revival of ancient Nordic and Celtic culture. Finally, the book offers an indispensable historical background to current events in the Far North, where the past and the future meet in a complex web of dramatic environmental concerns, the exploitation of natural resources, and the strategies of politics and commerce.

Bulletin of the New York Public Library

Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Title Bulletin of the New York Public Library PDF eBook
Author New York Public Library
Publisher
Pages 542
Release 1899
Genre Bibliography
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Includes its Report, 1896-19 .

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Title The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints PDF eBook
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Pages 712
Release 1978
Genre Union catalogs
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