Rousham – PDF

Rousham – PDF

£5.00

NAJ 19 (1985). A5 book, 40 pp., 35 illustrations

The extant Augustan garden outside Oxford designed by William Kent for General Dormer

AVAILABLE as a PDF. £5.00 (half price and no shipping cost. Order as usual, and the NAJ will be despatched to your email address

NB. The hard copy NAJ is out of print

For details, see the Description below

 

 

Description

Illustrations:

Howard EaglestoneIan Gardner (plus Cover, above), Andrew Griffiths.

Texts:

John MacClary (introduced by Mavis Batey). The gardener’s letter of 1750 (advising on the way to tour Rousham).
Simon Pugh. Rousham: from Nature as Garden to Garden as Nature (the Classic Ground of Italy transposed into the English countryside).
Patrick Eyres. Rousham: Garden of Apollo and Venus (an iconographical interpretation of the garden as an autobiographical review of General Dormer’s military career).