Description: Landscape Design in 18thC Ireland Mixing Foreign Trees with Natives O'Kane HB Click images to enlarge Description LANDSCAPE DESIGN IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND - Mixing Foreign Trees with the Natives by FINOLA O'KANE Pub. Cork University Press: 2004. First edition. Hardback in dustjacket. 211 pages with index, many illustrations, coloured end paper maps. Detailed original study of eighteenth-century landscapes in and around Dublin, of the gardens in the region, and of the aesthetic, political and economic factoprs which persuaded their owners to create them. Focuses particularly on Breckdenston, Castletowen House and Frescati. Within the walls of the demesne, the Anglo-Irish ascendancy constructed their vision of an Irish Utopia. Ideal landscapes were designed and planted out with standard temperate trees and newly introduced exotics from the Americas. Ideal cottages were built, paternalistic estate management structures developed, and complex planning and design theories indulged. Masques and plays, morally suspect in the strict Protestant ethos of the time, flourished within the enclosed world of the demesne. Robert Molesworth's radical Whig landscape influenced both Jonathan Swift and the Earl of Shaftesbury's political and aesthetic ideas. The women of Carton and Castletown employed the theatrical tradition of French gardens to explore controversial lifestyles. This book seeks to explore how and why the landscapes were designed, who designed them, who used them, and for what purpose. Detailed studies of selected and connected gardens were used to explore these questions, and the smaller compass is hopefully countered by a more detailed context. Some of the gardens recreated retain much valuable evidence on the ground, while others have been pieced together from documentary sources, in particular the copious personal letters which survive. Very Good+ condition. Get images that make Supersized seem small.Showcase your items with Auctiva's Listing Templates! THE simple solution for eBay sellers. Track Page Views WithAuctiva's FREE Counter
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Language: Irish
Format: Hardback
Non-Fiction Subject: Architecture & Design
Date of Publication: 2004
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Binding: Hardback
Year Printed: 2004
