{"product_id":"the-english-landscape-garden-tim-richardson-9780711290921","title":"The English Landscape Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003eSmooth lawns, glassy pools, cool garden temples, mysterious woodland glades, evocative statuary ... the 18th-century English landscape garden offers a transcendent vision of Arcadia, a world of rich escapism peopled by gods and goddesses, young lovers and dairymaids, poets and philosophers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis sumptuous, beautifully photographed volume celebrates this quintessentially British creation, arguably its greatest artform, taking you on a tour of 20 of the finest surviving gardens, including:Studley Royal (Yorkshire), a dreamy valley garden which culminates with a view down and across the ruins of a Cistercian abbeyStowe (Buckinghamshire), the great politically motivated garden of its day, boasting the ensemble masterpiece that is William Kent's Elysian FieldsChiswick House (London), Lord Burlington's experiment in neoclassical architecturePetworth (Sussex) - of 'Capability' Brown, who eschewed the symbolism of earlier generations but created instead his own powerful vision of pastoral ArcadiaHawkstone Park (Shropshire), designed to elicit a thrill of fear in visitors as they traverse rocky precipices and encounter live hermitsIncluding much new research and specially commissioned photographs, this is a book to dive into and be transported to an idyllic dream realm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tim Richardson","offers":[{"title":"As New","offer_id":48895597838579,"sku":"9990002976841","price":34.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9780711290921.jpg?v=1777579788","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-english-landscape-garden-tim-richardson-9780711290921","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}