Triggs, Harry I. [Hrsg.]; Latham, Charles [Ill.]: Formal gardens in England and Scotland: their planning and arrangement, architectural and ornamental features (London, 1902)

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Triggs, Harry I. [Hrsg.]; Latham, Charles [Ill.]
Formal gardens in England and Scotland: their planning and arrangement, architectural and ornamental features — London, 1902

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CHARLES LATHAM

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List of subscribers

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Sir Charles Henry Rouse-Boughton, Bart.

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Burgess, Edward, Esq., London. … The Right Hon. Lord Edward William Pelham … Coates, Major Edward F., York. … The Hon. Charles Ellis, London. … Eady, The Hon. Sir Charles Swinfen, LL.D. … Ellice, Capt. Edward C, Invergarry.

Greaves, Mrs. Edward, Glamorgan. … Harbottle, Edward H. Esq., F.R.I.B.A., Exeter. … Hayward, Charles Forster, Esq., F.S.A., London.

Leveson-Gower, Charles, Esq., Limpsfield. … Mallows, C. E., Esq., Bedford.

Owers, Charles, Esq., Dundee. … Pawley, Charles H., Esq., London. … Sir Charles Seely. … Scribner's Sons, Messrs. Charles, Agents for United

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Whitelaw, Charles E., Esq., Glasgow.

Preface

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To Mr. Charles Latham much is due, for he has devoted the best of his art to the photographic

An historical note

During the reign of Charles I. no great progress was made in the art of gardening, but during the … gardens. Charles II. during his sojourn abroad imbibed much of the prevalent taste, and one of his first cares … Essex, to study under Le Notre, and on his return was appointed gardener to Charles II. His pupil and

ingenuity. Extensive alterations to the Royal gardens at Hampton Court were now commenced. Charles II. … and Mary employed George London, who had been a pupil of Rose, head gardener to Charles II. With

style came in with the revival of Italian Architecture, and large schemes were designed by Sir Charles Barry,

Historical &descriptive accounts of the subjects illustrated

of the original builder, Sir Edward Phelips, then Speaker of the House of Commons.

ENSHURST PLACE was granted by King Edward VI. to Sir William Sidney,

The house is approached from Chippenham, through an arched gateway designed by Sir Charles

Charles I., and his successor, the second earl, in the leisure intervals of a most

Garden (now the Privy Garden), appointing one Edward Gryffyn to superintend the work. In the … was left to Charles II., fresh from having seen the glories of Versailles, to inaugurate the great scheme … design, they carried to completion the works commenced by Charles, acting under the advice of George

planted by Charles II. The gardens thus enclosed include the great semicircular Fountain Garden and

HE present classic pile of buildings, which Sir Charles Barry designed for the … 1833 Sir Charles Barry laid out the gardens as we see them to-day. The situation is one of great

is the date 1617. Additions were made during the reign of James II. by Sir Edward Frewen, whose

of Charles I. the estate of Melbourne was leased by the Bishop of Carlisle to Sir

In the reign of Edward I., Groombridge was in the possession of a younger … of John Waller, whose son Richard, fighting at the battle of Agincourt, took prisoner Charles, … Packer, clerk of the Privy Seal to Charles I., whose son, Philip Packer, the friend of John Evelyn,

of Edward Rich, Earl of Warwick and Holland, came here to live, and Holland House soon became a

of Charles Walley, whose great grandson dying without issue, it was purchased in

Atkyn's " Gloucestershire," shows the house when it was the seat of Edward

restoration of Charles II., in consequence of which promotion followed rapidly, and he was knighted

by Sir Edward Dryden between 1708 and 1717. It is of a similar type to the charming series of rustic

"What a dead thing is a clock," wrote Charles Lamb, "compared with the simple altar-like

collar and badge of the thistle. There are also the initials of Charles I. and his queen, Henrietta Maria,

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