The Hermit in the Garden: From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome

by Gordon Campbell

Book Overview

Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commission architectural follies for their landscape gardens. These follies often included hermitages, many of which still survive, often in a ruined state.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198700865
• ISBN13: 9780198700869
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.4"