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Mr Hamilton's Elysium Michael Symes

Mr Hamilton's Elysium von Michael Symes

Mr Hamilton's Elysium Michael Symes

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Zusammenfassung

This book is the first to give the story of Charles Hamilton and his creation. It is fully illustrated with archive images and wonderful photographs of the park and its amazing buildings.

Mr Hamilton's Elysium Zusammenfassung

Mr Hamilton's Elysium: The Gardens of Painshill Michael Symes

The Hon. Charles Hamilton was one of those extraordinary eighteenth-century gentlemen who, like Lord Cobham at Stowe and Henry Hoare at Stourhead, turned their gardens into works of art.



Inspired by his time in Italy, Hamilton set out to transform the 'accursed hill' at Painshill in Surrey into a pictorial landscape complete with serpentine lake and water wheel, Turkish Tent, 'Chinese Bridge', Ruined Abbey, Grotto and Hermitage. The garden soon ranked with the best in the land but it later lay forgotten until rediscovered in the 1970s. The restoration over the last thirty years or so has been as careful and dramatic as any. Now Painshill Park is visited by thousands and even the famous vineyard is flourishing again.



This book is fully illustrated with archive images and wonderful photographs of the park and its amazing buildings.

Mr Hamilton's Elysium Bewertungen

The author of this scholarly and comprehensive book was involved in the resurrection of Painshill from the first, and has produced a beautifully illustrated volume that is worthy of of its subject. The photography is of high quality and it's a particular pleasure to see sketches - William Gilpin's urgent pen-and-inks, for example - reproduced so finely. Country Life Includes a stunning selection of photographs and illustrations of the garden's landscape and buildings. Heritage Very readable and accompanied by some highly evocative photographs. Image Interiors Everyone should lose themselves in 'Mr Hamilton's Elysium'. Homes & Gardens An illuminating tour around the crystal studded grotto, Turkish tent, American plant rarities and other features that have influenced generations of garden makers. Financial Times Charts the story of its creation with early prints, paintings and contemporary accounts together with modern photographs. It is a lavish guide to this extraordinary and influential garden, a place for inspired wandering. Guardian Symes is, as usual, lucid on the history and particularly interesting on the Herculean efforts needed to bring Painshill back from the near abandon it had reached by 1970. Historic Gardens Review In an exceptional book, Michael Symes conjures up the highs and lows of Painshill's history with a rare combination of scholarship and readability. Art Newspaper A book for everyone. The general reader can learn about one of Britain's most important landscape gardens. The undergraduate studying art or social history can find a great case study in eighteenth-century culture and taste. And the academic historian who specialises in art, gardens or botany can find detailed discussions of each of these subjects, supported by scholarly references. Project managers should find it interesting too, for the book is an object lesson in how a group of people can succeed in acheiving their long-term goals with careful planning and management, teamwork and volunteer recruitment, and fund-raising. Cassone The quality and depth of the research in this book is striking. Every sentence bulges with historic detail. The book is beautifully composed and illustrated, with both up-to-date images and those made by 18th Century visitors. The book is not only of interest to those who are concerned with Painshill. Many sections provide an excellent basis to a wider appreciation of garden history. Research into Painshill is something of a life's work for the author, a garden historian to whom we owe a debt of gratitude for his teaching, making this book well anticipated. Garden

Über Michael Symes

Michael Symes is a member of the Painshill Park Trust and has undertaken much of the historical research that has underpinned the restoration. He has taught and directed the Birkbeck College MA in garden history and has written a number of books including A Glossary of Garden History, The English Rococo Garden and Garden Sculpture.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents





Chapter 1: The gardens of Painshill



Chapter 2: A brief history of the estate



Chapter 3: The Hon. Charles Hamilton



Chapter 4: Hamilton the collector



Chapter 5: The lake



Chapter 6: The buildings



Chapter 7: The exotic and oriental



Chapter 8: Hamilton's trees and shrubs



Chapter 9: Images of Painshill



Chapter 10: Hamilton and the Picturesque



Chapter 11: The vineyard



Chapter 12: Aftermath and restoration



References

Picture credits

Acknowledgements

Index

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR008073483
9780711230552
0711230552
Mr Hamilton's Elysium: The Gardens of Painshill Michael Symes
Michael Symes
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
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Quarto Publishing PLC
20100902
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