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Capability Brown and the English Landscape Garden by Laura Mayer (Paperback, 2011)

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Ruthlessly efficient, he could stake out the 'capabilities' of a particular terrain within an hour on horseback. Capability Brown (1716-83) took the English landscape and turned it into his ideal: large lawns, ponds, and forests in the distance.

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The name Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (1716-83) has become synonymous with the eighteenth-century English landscape garden. Ruthlessly efficient, he could stake out the 'capabilities' of a particular terrain within an hour on horseback. Rising to the position of Master Gardener to George III, his trademark features included bald lawns, clumped trees, lakes and enclosing belts of woodland on the estate's perimeter, setting a park formula that lasted well into the next century. Laura Mayer presents a concise and colourful introduction to Brown and other leading landscape gardeners of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, such as William Kent, Richard Payne Knight and Humphry Repton. She explores how competing ideas in garden design were shaped both by changes in prevailing fashion and by the innovations of particular designers, and why Brown's designs are currently considered to be the epitome of landscape gardening in this period.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13
9780747810490
eBay Product ID (ePID)
108492755

Product Key Features

Book Title
Capability Brown and the English Landscape Garden
Author
Laura Mayer
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Number of Pages
64 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
210mm
Item Width
149mm
Item Weight
152g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Laura Mayer
Series Title
Shire Library
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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item 1 Capability Brown and the English Landscape Garden by Laura Mayer (English) Paper
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item 2 Laura Mayer - Capability Brown and the English Landscape Garden 646 - M245z
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item 3 Capability Brown and the English Landscape Garden. Mayer 9780747810490 New**
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by borth7305 Oct, 2017
Useful little book
Although I did not discover any new information on the particular site I am researching I found the book very useful with plenty of illustrations. Can recommend to Brown enthusiasts.
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by grannycookavf30 Sep, 2016
If you're interesting in Capability Brown, this is a good book
I'm currently studying Capability Brown so bought this book to broaden my knowledge. Not as good as Dorothy Stroud's masterpiece written in the 1950's, but a good book to start off with.
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