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Mr Hamilton's Elysium: The Gardens of Painshill by Michael Symes: Used
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2010-09-07
- Pages
- 176
- ISBN
- 9780711230552
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Quarto Publishing Group UK
ISBN-10
0711230552
ISBN-13
9780711230552
eBay Product ID (ePID)
81855040
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mr. Hamilton's Elysium : the Gardens of Painshill
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Regional / General, General
Publication Year
2010
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Gardening
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
41.6 Oz
Item Length
10.8 in
Item Width
9.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
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. Includes a stunning selection of photographs and illustrations of the garden's landscape and buildings. Very readable and accompanied by some highly evocative photographs. Everyone should lose themselves in 'Mr Hamilton's Elysium'. An illuminating tour around the crystal studded grotto, Turkish tent, American plant rarities and other features that have influenced generations of garden makers. 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. 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. In an exceptional book, Michael Symes conjures up the highs and lows of Painshill's history with a rare combination of scholarship and readability. 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. 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.
Dewey Decimal
712.609422145
Table Of Content
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
Synopsis
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., 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., Inspired by his time in Italy, Charles Hamilton set out to transform the 'accursed hill' at Painshill in Surrey. Today, after much renovation, the garden is visited by thousands every year. This book provides archive images and wonderful photographs of the park and its amazing buildings.
LC Classification Number
SB470.55
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