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From Desert to Eden: Charles Bridgeman's 'Capital Stroke'
03/1973 | 840 | 115
Pages: 150+152-155+157
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Author:
Willis, Peter (Willis, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Bridgeman, Charles
artists:
Kent, William
buildings:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Great Britain
buildings:
Stowe Landscape Gardens, Buckingham, Great Britain
dates:
1700-1749
places:
England
sources:
Walpole, Horace, Fourth Earl of Orford, 1717-1797
sources:
Dézallier d’Argenville, Antoine-Joseph, 1680-1765
subjects:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Great Britain
subjects:
Gardens / Sources
subjects:
Ha-ha
subjects:
Landscape gardening
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Sarah Bridgeman (Publ.), Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire..., Plate 8, 'View of the Queen's Theatre from the Rotunda'. Engraving by Jacques Rigaud and Bernard Baron, 1739. Reproduced by Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum.
Attributed works:
11. Sarah Bridgeman (Publ.), Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire..., Plate 7, 'View from Gibbs's Building'. Engraving by Jacques Rigaud and Bernard Baron, 1739. Reproduced by Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum.
Attributed works:
6. Antoine Joseph Dézallier D'Argenville, The Theory and Practice of Gardening.... (Paris 1709), trans. John James (London, 1712), Plate 3A. Reproduced by Courtesy of the Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.
Attributed works:
7. Bird's-Eye Perspective of Stowe House, Buckinghamshire, c. 1720, Attributed to Charles Bridgeman. Ink, Pencil and Wash, 41.9 by 95.2 cm. (Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS. Gough Drawings, a4 folio 46). Reproduced by Courtesy of the Bodleian Library.
Attributed works:
8. Detail from the Drawing Illustrated in Fig. 7. [Bird's-Eye Perspective of Stowe House, Buckinghamshire, c. 1720, Attributed to Charles Bridgeman. Ink, Pencil and Wash, 41.9 by 95.2 cm. (Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS. Gough Drawings, a4 folio 46). Reproduced by Courtesy of the Bodleian Library.]
Attributed works:
9. Sarah Bridgeman (Publ.), Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire..., 'A General Plan of the Woods, Park and Gardens...', 1739. Detail from Engraving. Reproduced by Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum.