Nature in harmony with human’s design was the message, and England’s mercantile success was what made these inventive, visionary schemes possible. Each was a particular evocation of an Edenic paradise realised in time and place, ornamented with souvenirs of a classical education and well-heeled foreign travel, full of wit and grace.
The pictorial aesthetic was expressed through serpentines and meanders, cascades, reflecting basins and dark grottoes, the intrigue of gazebos and ha-has, a predominance of the evergreen foliage of trees and shrubs over flowers, and the overall use of texture, tone, ...
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