Fiona Cowell

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Richard Woods (1715-1793): Master of the Pleasure GardenPaperback, 18 October 2019

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Part of Series
Garden and Landscape History
Print Length
311 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Boydell Press
Date Published
18 Oct 2019
ISBN-10
1783274328
ISBN-13
9781783274321

Description

First full biography of Richard Woods, the landscape designer, examining his work and restoring him to the attention he merits.

A contemporary of the famous landscape designer "Capability" Brown, Richard Woods has never received the recognition he deserves: in contrast to Brown, he emphasised the pleasure ground and kitchen garden, with a more pronounced use of flowers than was general among the landscape improvers of his time. He liked variety and incident in his plans and, where he was employed on a larger scale, the encroachment of the pleasure ground into the park created the Woodsian "pleasure park".
In this important work of detection and biography, Fiona Cowell analyses his designs, and explores his activities as a plantsman, a determined amateur architect and a farmer. In particular, she showsthe difficulties he found as a Catholic living in penal times, examining the difficulties encountered by both Woods and his Catholic patrons, and placing the man and his work in their wider social and economic context. Unjustly neglected in the past, he is here given his rightful place among the creators of the English landscape style.

Product Details

Author:
Fiona Cowell
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
18 October 2019
Dimensions:
17.02 x 23.88 x 2.29 cm
Genre:
Modern
ISBN-10:
1783274328
ISBN-13:
9781783274321
Language:
English
Location:
Woodbridge
Pages:
311
Publisher:
Weight:
1065.94 gm

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