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Mr Hamilton's Elysium: The Gardens of Painshill by Michael Symes
$50.00 NZD
Category: Botany
The Hon. Charles Hamilton was one of those extraordinary eighteenth-century gentlemen who, like Lord Cobham at Stowe and Henry Hoare at Stourhead, turned their gardens into works of art. Inspired by his time in Italy, Hamilton set out to transform the 'accursed hill' at Painshill in Surrey into a pictor ...Show more
The English Rococo Garden by Michael Symes
$10.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Series: Shire Library
Delightful, eccentric, capricious, bizarre - the English Rococo garden, an intriguing branch of eighteenth-century horticulture, was all these and more. This book relates the components of the Rococo garden to movements in art and architecture that had developed in Britain and in Europe, and shows its p ...Show more
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