Cowell, Fiona.

Richard Woods (1715-1793) : master of the pleasure garden / Fiona Cowell.

Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell, 2009.

xx, 283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 26 cm.

Garden and landscape history series ; 2

"A contemporary of the famous landscape designer 'Capability' Brown, Richard Woods has never received the recognition he deserves: in contrast to Brown, he emphasised the pleasure ground and kitchen garden, with a more pronounced use of flowers than was general among the landscape improvers of his time. He liked variety and incident in his plans and, where he was employed on a larger scale, the encroachment of the pleasure ground into the park created the Woodsian 'pleasure park'." "In this important work of detection and biography, Fiona Cowell analyses his designs, and explores his actives as a plantsman, a determined amateur architect and a farmer. In particular, she shows the difficulties he found as a Catholic living in penal times, examining the difficulties encountered by both Woods and his Catholic patrons, and placing the man and his work in their wider social and economic context. Unjustly neglected in the past, he is here given his rightful place among the creators of the English landscape style."--BOOK JACKET.

9781843835240 (hbk.)
184383524X (hbk.)

Woods, Richard, 1715-1793.
Woods, Richard 1715-1793
Woods, Richard.
Woods, Richard (Landschaftsarchitekt)
Woods, Richard, 1715 or 6-1793
Landscape architects England Biography.
Landscape design England History 18th century.
Architectes paysagistes Angleterre Biographies.
Aménagement paysager Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle.
Landscape architects.
Landscape design.
Landschaftsgarten.
Landschaftsgestaltung.
England.

Biographies.
History.

Garden and landscape history ; 2.

Location: Library main 269078
Call No.: BIB 201079
Status: Available