Studio: international art (25.1902)

SOME RECENT DRAWINGS OF
ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL
GARDENS by GEORGE S. ELGOOD

Since the time when Mr. George posed among statues and architectural

S. Elgood's admirable paintings of features. That Mr. Elgood does not

gardens were first illustrated and neglect the gardens of his own country

favourably commented upon in the was proved by his renderings of the

May number of The Studio, 1895, moss-grown stone copings and clipped

the interest in gardens of all kinds, hedges of old English manor-houses.

whether formal or
natural, has greatly-
widened and in-
creased ; and this
has been shown par-
ticularly in the num-
ber of volumes issued
in recent years deal-
ing with this always
attractive subject. In
his latest exhibition
of work at the Fine
Art Society's Gal-
leries in Bond Street,
Mr. Elgood once more
provided a feast of
delightful visions of
beautiful places, and
showed further dis-
tinct progress in his
delineation of the
stately terraces and
parterres of Italian
and Southern French
gardens, with their
blaze of blossoms set

in greenery, or dis- "the sundial, brickwau." by george s. elgood

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