Sir John Vanbrugh and Landscape Architecture in Baroque England (eBook)

Christopher Ridgway, Robert Williams (Autoren)

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2024 | 1. Auflage
322 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-1-80399-756-8 (ISBN)

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Sir John Vanbrugh is celebrated today as one of England's finest country house architects. His masterpieces include palatial private homes such as Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace, greatly admired by any enthusiast of English Baroque architecture. However, his work extended far beyond such projects, and included a remarkable variety of temples, belvederes, pyramids and many other features which he designed for the gardens and parks of the estates at which he worked. The originality of such work has shown that Vanbrugh played a crucial role in the development of the eighteenth-century English garden, and this unique and fascinating book uses the fruits of new research to assess just what contribution this great man made to our heritage.

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List of Illustrations

1.    John Vanbrugh, Design for South Front, Castle Howard with Inset Plan, 1699, drawing. The Victoria and Albert Museum (E.2826.1995); photograph: V&A Picture Library.

2.    John Vanbrugh, Design for South Front, Castle Howard with Lantern and Dome, 1699, drawing. The Victoria and Albert Museum (E.2825.1995); photograph: V&A Picture Library.

3.    John Vanbrugh, Ground Plan of the North-east Angle of the Main Block for Castle Howard, 1699, drawing. The Victoria and Albert Museum (E.2825.1995, verso); photograph: V&A Picture Library.

4.    ‘Chatsworth, Derbyshire’, engraving, from Leonard Knyff and Jan Kip, Britannia Illustrata, 1707. Private collection.

5.    Dovecote at Rougham Hall, Norfolk, designed by Roger North, 1690s. Photograph: Tom Williamson.

6.    Duck decoy at Flixton, Suffolk, detail from an estate map, 1652.

7.    ‘Cassiobury, Hertfordshire’, engraving, from Leonard Knyff and Jan Kip, Britannia Illustrata, 1707. Private collection.

8.    Henderskelfe Castle, Yorkshire, estate map, 1694, ink and watercolour on parchment (P1/2). Castle Howard Archives.

9.    Anon., Averham Park, Nottinghamshire, oil on canvas, c. 1730. Private collection.

10.   ‘Badminton, Gloucestershire’, engraving, from Leonard Knyff and Jan Kip, Britannia Illustrata, 1707. Private collection.

11.   ‘Aspenden Hall, Hertfordshire’, engraving, from Sir Henry Chauncey, Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire, 1700.

12.   ‘Madingley, Cambridgeshire’, engraving, from Leonard Knyff and Jan Kip, Britannia Illustrata, 1707. Private collection.

13.   Castle Howard, Yorkshire, estate map, 1727. Ink and watercolour on linen-backed parchment (P1/4). Castle Howard Archives.

14.   ‘Caversham, Berkshire’, engraving, from Colen Campbell, Vitruvius Britannicus, III, 1725. Private collection.

15.   Paston Manor, engraving, from Stephen Switzer, Ichnographia Rustica, II, 1718. Private collection.

16.   Charles Bridgeman, A General Plan of Hampton Court Palace and Bushy Park, c. 1712, drawing. By courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John Soane’s Museum.

17.   Charles Bridgeman, A Plan of Blenheim, 1709, drawing. Blenheim Archives, Blenheim Palace. By kind permission of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough.

18.   ‘The East Prospect and Garden Front of Kiveton House’, c. 1710, engraving, from Thomas Badeslade and John Rocque, Vitruvius Britannicus, IV, 1739. Private collection.

19.   Thomas Badeslade and Jan Kip, ‘Waldershare, Kent’, engraving, from Dr John Harris, A History of Kent, 1719. By permission of The British Library.

20.   Colen Campbell and Henry Hulsbergh, ‘Plan of the Gardens and Plantations of Claremont, Surrey’, c. 1717, engraving, from Colen Campbell, Vitruvius Britannicus, III, 1725. Private collection.

21.   Charles Bridgeman (attrib.), A Plan of Eastbury, c. 1718, drawing. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (MS Gough Drawings, a.3*, f. 9).

22.   Charles Bridgeman (attrib.), A Plan of Sacombe, Hertfordshire, c. 1715, drawing. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (MS Gough Drawings, a.4, f. 64).

23.   Colen Campbell and Henry Hulsbergh, ‘Bird’s-eye View of Castle Howard, Yorkshire’, c. 1715, engraving, from Colen Campbell,Vitruvius Britannicus, III, 1725. Private collection.

24.   John Griffier II, Hurstbourne Priors: A View of the Canal and Cascade from the House, 1748, oil on canvas, one of a pair on loan to Audley End, Essex. By kind permission of Lord Braybrooke; photograph: English Heritage Photographic Library.

25.   Peter Tillemans (attrib.), A View of the Garden and House at Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, late 1720s, watercolour. New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.

26.   Colen Campbell and Henry Hulsbergh, ‘Plan of the Gardens and Plantations at Belton Hall, Lincolnshire’, c. 1717, engraving, from Colen Campbell, Vitruvius Britannicus, III, 1725. Private collection.

27.   Charles Bridgeman (attrib.), Proposal for the Gardens at Houghton, c. 1717, drawing. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (MS Gough Drawings, a.4, f. 57).

28.   ‘A Great Wood of Forrest trees Cut into Single Star with Cabinets’, engraving, from John James, The Theory and Practice of Gardening, 1712. Private collection.

29    Thomas Badeslade and John Harris, ‘Belton in Lincolnshire’, c. 1725, engraving (detail), from Thomas Badeslade and John Rocque, Vitruvius Britannicus, IV, 1739. Private collection.

30.   ‘The Plan of an Octagonal Kitchen Garden’, engraving, from Stephen Switzer, The Practical Kitchen Gardiner, 1727. Private collection.

31.   Sir Bernard de Gomme, Tilbury Fort, Essex, 1670–83. English Heritage Photographic Library.

32.   William Stukeley, Plan of Grimsthorpe, 1736, drawing. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (MS Top. Gen. d.14, f. 36v).

33.   William Stukeley, The Duchess’s Bastion, Grimsthorpe, 1736, drawing. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (MS Top. Gen. d.14, f. 36r).

34.   Nottingham Castle, a detail from John Badder and Thomas Peat, A Plan of the Town of Nottingham, 1744. Private collection.

35.   John Vanbrugh, Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, Entrance Front, 1720–8. Photograph: Robert Williams.

36.   A Plan of Seaton Delaval, 1860, detail from an Ordnance Survey map. Private collection.

37.   Seaton Delaval, the ditch, platform and north-west bastion. Photograph: Robert Williams.

38.   Jacques Rigaud, ‘View of the Queen’s Theatre from the Rotunda’, engraving (detail), from Sarah Bridgeman, Views of Stowe, 1739. The National Trust Photographic Library.

39.   James Bretherton after Henry William Bunbury, The Siege of Namur by Captain Shandy & Corporal Trim, 1773, etching with drypoint. Private Collection.

40.   Anon., Ribston Hall, Yorkshire, c. 1688–90, drawing. Country Life Picture Library.

41.   George Vertue, ‘London as Fortified in the Years 1642 and 1643’, from William Maitland, The History of London, 1739. By permission of The British Library.

42.   Anon., The North Front of Southampton House (later Bedford House) London, late seventeenth century, drawing. Museum of London.

43.   William Stukeley, Vanbrugh Castle, Greenwich, 1721, pen and ink. Society of Antiquaries, London.

44.   The Old Ordnance Board-room at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, 1718–20. Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, National Monuments Record.

45.   John Vanbrugh, Castle Howard, from the south, begun 1699. The Castle Howard Collection.

46.   John Vanbrugh, Eastern Service Range at Castle Howard, begun 1710. Photograph: Christopher Ridgway.

47.   The Belvedere, Claremont, Surrey, c. 1715. Photograph: Timothy Mowl.

48.   Longford Castle, Wiltshire, completed 1591. Photograph: Timothy Mowl.

49.   Lulworth Castle, Dorset, 1607. Photograph: Timothy Mowl.

50.   Jeffry Wyatville, East Front of the Upper Ward, Windsor Castle, by Hugh May of 1675–84, drawing. The Royal Library, Windsor Castle, HM The Queen.

51.   Wenceslaus Hollar, ‘Windsor Castle’, from Elias Ashmole, The Institutions, Laws & Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, 1672. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

52.   A Triumphal Arch raised to line Charles II’s coronation procession, from John Ogilby, The Entertainment of His Most Excellent Majestie Charles II in His Passing through the City of London to His Coronation, 1662. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

53.   Charles II’s enthronement in Westminster Abbey, from John Ogilby, The Entertainment of His Most Excellent Majestie Charles II in His Passing through the City of London to His Coronation, 1662. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

54.   Thor, Woden & Frea, three of the Saxon gods...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.8.2024
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: 18th centurycastle howard • Blenheim Palace • Castle Howard • country house architect • eighteenth century english garden • english arcitecture • english baroque architecture • grimsthorpe castle • kings weston house • seaton delaval hall • sir john vanburgh • stowe house • William III
• ISBN-10: 1-80399-756-7 / 1803997567
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80399-756-8 / 9781803997568