Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Who was Charles Bridgeman? -- 2 Towards a reliable corpus -- 3 A revised catalogue -- 4 Reading the plans -- 5 The art-historical context revisited -- 6 The 'ingenious Mr Bridgeman' -- 7 Building a landscape -- 8 A commercial enterprise -- Conclusion -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Appendix III -- Appendix IV -- Gazetteer of Bridgeman sites -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Garden and Landscape History
Summary
An examination of the garden plans of eighteenth-century landscape architect Charles Bridgeman, shedding light on his artistic vision and contributions to English garden history
