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An examination of the garden plans of eighteenth-century landscape
architect Charles Bridgeman, shedding light on his artistic vision and contributions to
English garden history.Charles Bridgeman was a popular and highly successful landscape
architect in the first part of the eighteenth century. He was Royal Gardener to George I and
George II, designing the gardens at Kensington Palace for them and working for many of the
ruling Whig elite, including Sir Robert Walpole at Houghton Hall in Norfolk. His landscapes
were audacious and monumental, but he is barely known outside the world of academic garden
history; most of his gardens have disappeared, changed out of all recognition to chime with
later tastes shaped by Lancelot Brown's vision of a more "e;natural"e;
landscape, or buried under housing developments and golf courses; and there is little
archaeological or written evidence of his work.This book aims to redress this injustice and
rescue his legacy. It draws on the only significant body of evidence which survived him: an
extensive but wildly heterogenous corpus of garden plans. Close examination of them reveals
an artistic vision heavily influenced by the late seventeenth-century geometric garden but
deeply rooted in the "e;genius of the place"e;, and working methods that
include a proto-business model which prefigures the gentleman improvers who followed him.
The volume brings him from obscurity to demonstrate his skill as an artist, a manipulator of
space on a grand scale and a consummate practitioner, a deserved member of the canon of
famous and revered English landscape gardeners.
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