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Michael Symes
Renowned landscape historian Michael Symes explores the history and techniques of printmaking and how prints of landscape gardens reflected and influenced fashion - sometimes at the expense of reality.
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Delightful, eccentric, capricious, bizarre - the English Rococo garden, an intriguing branch of eighteenth-century horticulture, was all these and more. This book relates the components of the Rococo garden to…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
A garden ‘in the English style’ is commonly used to denote a landscape garden in Europe, while the term ‘landscape garden’ is used for layouts that are naturalistic in plan…
An account of an embassy to the Kingdom of Ava in the year 1795 This book, An account of an embassy to the Kingdom of Ava in the year 1795…
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
The 18th-century phenomenon of the English Landscape Garden was so widespread that even today, when so much has been built over or otherwise changed, one is never far from an…
Edition, with commentary, of the first comprehensive attempt to describe the landscape garden.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCRd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
He recorded in this book what he saw and experienced. The book is a mine of information of Burma and its inhabitants - their religion, their customs, their family life…
Symes' account of his diplomatic mission to Burma provides a vivid and compelling portrait of this fascinating and mysterious country. With descriptions of its people, culture, and customs, it is…
""Relation de l'Ambassade Anglaise V1: Envoy?????e en 1795 dans le Royaume d'Ava, ou l'Empire des Birmans"" est un livre ?????crit par Michael Symes et publi????? en 1800. Il s'agit d'un…
