Victorian Flower Gardens

by Clayton-Payne, Andrew; Elliot, Brent

• ISBN13: 9781841880778
• ISBN10: 1841880779
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Sterling Pub

Summary

Picturesque tumbledown cottages, their gardens ablaze with roses, delphiniums, and hollyhocks, inspired a whole generation of Victorian artists. 130 inspired works by painters such as Helen Allingham, Claude Strachan, and David Woodlock, along with forty others, compose a fascinating and splendid historical record of the flowers and features that characterized the Victorian English country garden. "...a cornucopia of entrancing watercolors."--The Field. "As happy a book as you are likely to meet."--Arts Review.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(13)
The Cottage Garden Observed	13	(30)
The Cottage Garden Transformed	43	(32)
The Country House Garden	75	(28)
The Wild Garden	103	(20)
The Revivalist Garden	123	(29)
Into the Twentieth Century	152	(5)
Further Reading	157	(1)
Index	158