'Gardenesque' the case of Charles Grevile's garden at Gloucester

• Autores: John Harris
• Localización: Studies in the history of gardens and designed landscape, ISSN 1460-1176, Vol. 1, Nº 2, 1981, págs. 167-178
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In recent years a need has emerged to redefine the terminology of styles of English gardening in the 18th century. The simplistic view that formal gardens of London, Wise and Bridgeman were succeeded by the Arcadian of Kent and the landscape of Brown, which in turn are followed by the ornamental reaction of Repton and the gardenesque of Loudon, needs to be re-examined. It is worthwhile making a comparison with architectural history, profoundly altered and improved by the aq:essibility of a mass of documents after 1954. The old ideas about garden development are now under attack because all of a sudden plans, accounts and descriptions of gardens are emerging from archives.