Irish Demesne Landscapes, 1660-1740

Costello describes the demesne landscapes of Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when the formal, symmetrical style of garden was fashionable, heavily influenced by French, Dutch, and Italian garden design. The survey begins by looking at the political and intellectual background to Ireland during the late-seventeenth century. She concludes with a description of the role of parks for field sports and domestic animals. Nine chapters are: the political, intellectual and economic background to landed estates; the changing appearance of the Irish landscape in the seventeenth century; improvement and the culture of improvement; pleasure gardens; horticultural improvement; trees, woodlands and plantations; botanical developments and the physic garden; use and control of water in the seventeenth-century garden; field sports and hunting. There is a list of illustrations, a list of abbreviations, notes, and a select bibliography. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)