Chapter 8

Neoclassical and Romantic

gardens 1700–1810
History and philosophy

English Garden Design: history and styles since 1650,

Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 299

8.1
 Garden history 300

8.2
Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 301

History of Art

Metamorphoses
 Garden history 302

8.3

Landscape with the Father of Psyche Sacrificing

at the Temple of Apollo

Essay on the Use of Studying Pictures, for the Purpose of Improving Real Landscape

il riposo di Claudio,
 Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 303

8.4 Landscape with

the Father of Psyche sacrificing at the
Temple of Apollo

le style Anglo-Chinois

imitate
 Garden history 304

8.5

nature nature

Pre-1700
Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 305

Upon the Gardens of Epicurus

‘il faut cultiver notre jardin’

1700–1750

8.6
 Garden history 306

8.7
Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 307

8.8
 Garden history 308

8.9
Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 309

8.10

englischer Garten

genius loci

1750–1783
 Garden history 310

8.11
Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 311

8.12

8.13
 Garden history 312

The World

8.14
 Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 313

Analysis of beauty,

ferme ornée,

8.15
 Garden history 314

ferme ornée,

ferme ornée,

On Modern Gardening

8.16
 Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 315

8.17

1783–1813

On Prints Tours,

Essays
 Garden history 316

8.18
The Landscape,
 Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 317

An essay on the Picturesque, as compared

with the Sublime and the Beautiful; and, on the use of studying pictures, for the purpose of improving real
landscape

Crucifixion

Essay on the Picturesque

8.19
Garden history 318

Country Residences
Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 319

8.20

England

c.

c.
 Garden history 320

8.21
Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 321

8.22
 Garden history 322

8.23

8.24
 Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 323

8.25

France

philosophes

Hameau de Trianon
 Garden history 324

8.26

Petit Trianon

(hameau)

The Picturesque Garden in France

Hameau
 Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 325

8.27

ferme ornée

Essay on Landscape or, on the

means of improving and embellishing the country round our habitations

 Garden history 326

hameau

hameau,

Du
contrat social,
Emile,

Nouvelle Héloïse

8.28
Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 327

8.29

Germany
Garden history 328

ancien régime

Georgics
Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 329

8.30

La Nouvelle Héloïse
 Garden history 330

8.31

Theory of Garden Design

Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 331

8.32

8.33
 Garden history 332

Theory of Garden Design

8.34
Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 333

8.35
 Garden history 334

8.36

8.37
Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 335

8.38

Russia

c. c.
 Garden history 336

Scandinavia

c.

Southern Europe
Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 337

8.39

8.40

8.41
 Garden history 338

Styles and examples

Forest style

8.42
Use: Form:

Cirencester Park 1715

 Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 339

8.43

Augustan style

8.44
Use: Form:
 Garden history 340

Chiswick 1725
Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 341

8.45

Villas of the Ancients

 Garden history 342

Stowe 1730
Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 343

le jardin anglais

8.46
 Garden history 344

Wörlitz Germany 1765

8.47
 Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 345

Serpentine style

8.48
Use:

Form:

Blenheim 1760
c.
 Garden history 346

8.49
 Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 347

8.50

Bowood 1761
 Garden history 348

Englischer Garten, Munich 1789

8.51
 Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 349

Picturesque style

8.52
Use: Form:

Country
Residences,

Hawkstone 1790

Rhododendron ponticum, c.
 Garden history 350

8.53

8.54

Barnbarrow 1806
 Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700—1810 351

Notes
English Garden Design: History and styles since 1650,

Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth,

ecclesiasticall and civill,
Baroque and Rococo,
The Story of Art,
An Outline of European Architecture,
A History of Art,
Palladio,
Claude Lorrain,

A History of Ideas and Images in Italian Art, An Essay on

the Picturesque, as compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful;

and on the use of studying pictures, for the purpose of improving real landscape,

Landscape into Art,

Poetics,
On Old Age,
The Enneads,
The Art of Painting, translated by Mr Dryden,
La Théorie et la Practique du Jardinage,
European Garden Design,
Polygraphice,
Works,
An Essay on Criticism,
Anecdotes of Painting in England, The Political

Theory of Painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt,

The Eighteenth-century Background: Studies on the Idea of

Nature in the thought of the period,
Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening
adapted to North America with a View to the Improvement of Country
Residences,

Studies in Art, Architecture and Design,

English Gardens and Landscapes 1700–1750,

Iconographic Rustica,

Iconographia Rustica,

The Great Chain of Being,

The Picturesque,
The World
The Happy Man. Studies in the metamorphoses of a classical ideal,
 Garden history 352

Greater Perfection: The practice of garden theory,

The Life and Work of William Gilpin (1724–1804), Master of

the Picturesque and Vicar of Boldre,
Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty, on Picturesque Travel
and on Sketching Landscape,

An Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful,

The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of
the Late H.Repton Esq,
Country Residences,
Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening,

A history of garden art,

European Garden Design,
To the Scaffold—The life of Marie Antoinette,
The Picturesque Garden in France,
An Essay on Landscape, or on the means of improving and
embellishing the country round our habitations,
Frederick the Great,
A History of Modern Germany, 1648–1840,

Design on the Land: The development of landscape architecture,

Lectures on Foreign History,

City as Landscape,

William Kent, Landscape Garden Designer. An assessment and

catalogue of his designs,
The Villas of the Ancients illustrated by The Author,
The English Landscape Garden,
Encyclopaedia of Gardening,

Italian Journey,
Capability Brown,

Capability Brown and Humphry Repton,

A History of Hawkstone,
 Chapter 9
Eclectic gardens 1800–1900

History and philosophy

9.1