An edition of Irish Demesne Landscapes, 1660-1740
(2015)
Irish demesne landscapes, 1660-1740
by Vandra Costello
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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.--
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Table of Contents
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-250) and index.
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