| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Front cover; Title page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Family Tree; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Early Days; 2. Into the Army; 3. Medieval Influences; 4. Painting the Picturesque; 5. Marriage and a Start in Landscape Gardening; 6. Concerning the Landscape; 7. The Return to Formality; 8. The Parterre-de-Broderie; 9. Painted Gardens; 10. The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and Buckingham Palace; 11. Enter William Eden; 12. Breaking Free; 13. Witley Court and Stoke Edith; 14. 30 Argyll Street; 15. Two Public Commissions; 16. The End of an Era |
|
List of William Andrews Nesfield's CommissionsList of William Eden Nesfield's Commissions; Watercolours Exhibited by William Andrews Nesfield; Glossary; Bibliography; Books; Articles; Back cover |
| Summary |
In this informative and charming volume, Shirley Evans explores the lives of two of the most prominent designers of the nineteenth century; designers who have left their distinctive mark on buildings and gardens throughout the British Isles. William Andrews Nesfield and Eden Nesfield, father and son, were infatuated with the beauty and romance of the past, and both played an important role in the nineteeth-century revivals of the Jacobean, Renaissance and Gothic styles. The Nesfields produced horticultural and architectural designs for wealthy and influential landowners, later winning important |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
CIP data; item not viewed |
| Subject |
Nesfield, W. A. (William Andrews), 1794-1881.
|
|
Nesfield, W. Eden (William Eden), 1835-1888.
|
|
Nesfield, W. A. (William Andrews), 1794-1881 |
|
Nesfield, W. Eden (William Eden), 1835-1888 |
|
Landscape architecture -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
|
|
Architecture -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
|
|
ARCHITECTURE -- Landscape.
|
|
GARDENING -- Garden Design.
|
|
GARDENING -- Landscape.
|
|
DESIGN -- History & Criticism.
|
|
Architecture
|
|
Landscape architecture
|
|
Great Britain
|
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
|
|
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9780718842413 |
|
0718842413 |
|
