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Articles found in Century Group: 18th Century

Styles

The English Landscape Garden developed throughout the eighteenth century and has been called our greatest contribution to art and culture.

People

The Picturesque was a very popular idea in the mid to late eighteenth century, initially focussing on viewing the natural landscape as if it were a picture in a frame, although it later evolved into a more complex set of aesthetic ideals and influenced fashions in English landscape garden design.

Places

A unique site with four complete period gardens including 17th century, Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian gardens.

Places

A walk round this exceptional English landscape garden made by Henry Hoare in the mid-18th century demonstrating many of the design principles that distinguished this type of garden from the very formal gardens of the 17th century.