Main entry:

Costello, Vandra, author.

Title & Author:

Irish demesne landscapes, 1660-1740 / Vandra Costello.

Publication:

Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press Ltd, [2015]

Description:

256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-250) and index.
The political, intellectual and economic background to landed estates -- The changing appearance of the Irish landscape in the seventeenth century -- Improvement and the culture of improvement -- Pleasure garderns -- Horticultural improvement -- Trees, woodlands and plantations -- Botanical developments and the physic garden -- Use and control of water in the seventeenth-century gardern -- Fiels sports and hunting.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

This book charts the history and development of formal gardening in Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and in particular the grand geometric style that was fashionable between 1660 and 1740. It examines the people who created these gardens, the influences that affected them, the materials that they employed and the uses of landscapes interventions. Using a wide range of sources, including several previously unpublished, this is the most extensive survey of early Irish gardens to date--Page 3 of jacket.

ISBN:

9781846825064 (cloth)
1846825067 (cloth)

Subject:

Landscape gardening Ireland History 17th century.
Landscape gardening Ireland History 18th century.
Landscape gardening.
Architektonischer Garten
Trädgårdskonst historia.
Landskapsarkitektur historia.
Formal gardens Ireland History 17th century.
Formal gardens Ireland History 18th century.
Irland.
Ireland.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292602
Call No.: BIB 236963
Status: Available