Prints and the Landscape Garden

by Michael Symes

This book considers what prints tell us about the development of the landscape garden in 18th- and early 19th- century Britain. They formed a significant part of the expanding machinery of mass communication and could thus influence taste and spread ideas. This could lead to propaganda, or at least creation of an image the owner of a property found desirable, and reality was consequently often compromised. The illusion of actuality could be achieved...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 173982296X
• ISBN13: 9781739822965
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: John Hudson Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 11.0" x 8.7"