William Andrews Nesfield: Between Uvedale Price and Isambard Kingdom Brunel

• Autores: Christopher Ridgway
• Localización: Studies in the history of gardens and designed landscape, ISSN 1460-1176, Vol. 13, Nº 1-2, 1993, págs. 69-89
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Anxious to begin laying out the grounds of his newly purchased estate at Watcombe in Devon, in December 1847, the great engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel wrote to a solicitor in Windsor, H. Darvill, enquiring, "Do you happen to know Mr Nesfield of Eton College is he the Landscape Gardener?" Brunei asked his friend to approach "Mr Nesfield" for his opinion of Alexander Forsyth, head gardener at Alton Towers, Staffordshire. Keen to employ Forsyth at Watcombe, "to superintend the formation of a Park when all is to be done", Brunel stipulated the kind of expert assistance he was seeking, "great knowledge of tree cultivation-not fancy gardening is wanted"