Kew Gardens: A Controversial Georgian Landscape

Kew Gardens: A Controversial Georgian Landscape

Kew Gardens: A Controversial Georgian Landscape

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NAJ 51/52 (2001). A5 book, 116 pp., 60 illustrations

The battle for Britishness as the royal and Tory iconography of the Dowager Princess Augusta, the Earl of Bute and William Chambers at Kew re-brands the Hanoverian dynasty as British. Simultaneously,  the contemporary Whig symbolism, created by Earl Temple and Thomas Hollis  in the Grecian Valley at Stowe, promotes a Britishness in tune with the agenda of the political opposition.

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Illustrations:

Catherine Aldred, Chris Broughton, Howard Eaglestone (plus Cover), Andrew Naylor.

Texts:

~ Patrick Eyres. Introduction.
~ Richard Quaintance. Kew Gardens, 1731-1778: can we look at both sides now?
~ Patrick Eyres. Kew and Stowe, 1757-1777: the polarised agendas of Royal and Whig iconographies.
~ Patrick Eyres. Appendix I. Kew and Stowe: late Georgian re-designation of the temples’ iconographies.
~ Andrew Naylor. Appendix II. Georgian sculpture at Kew: nothing is quite what it seems.

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