Landscape Design in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Mixing Foreign Trees with the Natives - Couverture rigide

O'Kane, Finola

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 185918362X ISBN 13 : 9781859183625

Editeur : Cork University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"Astute ransacking of archives - instructions from distant proprietors, family correspondence, estate plans and workbooks - allows Finola O'Kane to open windows upon three exemplary Irish landscapes - Breckdenston, Castletown House and Frescati. In the process, the Irishness of estate developments is explored - the subtle or more aggressive manipulation of English trends, the studied internationalism of sources and resources for both landscape design and agrarian efficiency (the Netherlands, most obviously, but also America and revolutionary France). But the focus also comes to include, not just estate management and landscape aesthetics, but the role of women as designers, planters and stewards of property, the education of children in country matters, Irish tourism, country house entertainment, and how all these elements were marshaled in the interests of Irish identity and political status." --John Dixon Hunt, University of Pennsylvania

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A meticulously researched and stunning visual history of 18th century historic landscapes in and around the Dublin Pale.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cork University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 185918362X
• ISBN 13: 9781859183625
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288