Sons of the Sea

Sons of the Sea

£20.00

NAJ 37/38 (1994). A5 book, 116 pp., 60 illustrations

Commerce, Empire and the Landscape Garden II: Iconographies of Hercules (and Neptune) in the culture and garden of Augustan Britain, as exemplified at Hampton Court, Greenwich, Stowe, Studley Royal, Goldney, Warmley, Stourhead and Rousham

For full details, see Description below

 

For this NAJ trilogy, see also NAJ 35/36 (1993) Hearts of Oak, and NAJ 39/40 (1995) Naumachia

 

 

Description

Illustrations:

Chris Broughton, Richard Doust, Howard Eaglestone (plus Cover), Grahame Jones, Michaela Kidney, Alan Powers, Corinne Roberts.

Texts:

~ Patrick Eyres. Introduction.
~ Patrick Eyres. Rambo in the Landscape garden: the British Hercules as Champion of the Protestant Succession (site examples include Hampton Court, Greenwich Hospital, Stowe and Studley Royal).
~ David Lambert. Hercules and Neptune and the Merchant-Gardeners of Bristol (at Goldney and Warmley).
~ Michael Charlesworth. Hercules, Apollo and the Hermit: Exploring Stourhead (the Choice of Hercules delineated).
~ Paul Whitely. William Shenstone and ‘The Judgement of Hercules: an Exercise in Politics (the Choice of Hercules deployed in the service of the opposition to the government of Sir Robert Walpole).
~ Patrick Eyres. Aerial Eye-catchers of the Pax Americana: a Cold War Allegory.