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Flowers and a Duke open the gates…
Over the past few months we’ve examined the story of the London square, and the last post revealed the beginning of both a slow decline in status and tentative attempts to open them to the public. Today’s post is … Continue reading
A Tale of Two Cities
We saw last week that although new squares continued to be built in the middle of the 19thc the design was sometimes adapted and modified, and there was sometimes criticism of both the layout itself and increasingly of the planting. … Continue reading
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Tagged Earls court, Inner Temple, London Square, model dwellings, paris, Samuel Broome, Tyburnia, William Robinson
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Fair and Square
Over the last couple of months I’ve done a series of posts about the history of the London square. We looked at the origins of the square as an architectural form in the 17thc, then the development of planting in … Continue reading
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Tagged Hyde Park, John Claudius Loudon, john nash, Ladbroke, London Square, Papworth, Thomas Allason, Thomas Cubitt, Tyburnia
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The Wizard Earl & his miniature conundrum
This painting has intrigued me since I first saw it, and I’ve included it in lectures on both Elizabethan gardens and art history, for reasons that I hope will soon become apparent. The sitter [or rather the recliner] is Henry … Continue reading
