The Statues at Rousham Park

Anne Schlee

ISBN 10: 0955892341 / ISBN 13: 9780955892349

Published by Academy Press, 2021

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The Statues at Rousham Park | Anne Schlee | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2021 | Academy Press | EAN 9780955892349 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Statues at Rousham Park
• Publisher: Academy Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0955892341
• ISBN 13: 9780955892349
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 248W x 284H x 16D millimeters 248 millimeters width by 284 millimeters height by 16 millimeters depth
• Weight: 822 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Bücher

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Synopsis

Rousham and its landscape garden, located in rural Oxfordshire, is one of the few gardens of the first phase of English landscape design to have escaped alteration.

Informative and well-illustrated, The Statues at Rousham Park describes how the retired General James Dormer, who inherited Rousham in 1738, completed Charles Bridgeman’s garden design with the help of William Kent, but reserved for himself the choice of statues and their placement.

Taken together, the statues and busts, in both lead and stone, suggest an autobiographical portrait of Dormer.

Despite the gardens at Rousham being a popular local attraction, a site of pilgrimage to students of William Kent, and the backdrop to world-famous television drama including the BBC’s recent adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love (2021), this is the first publication of its kind on its statues and their surrounding landscape.