Victorian Flower Gardens: No 12 (Country S.)

by Brent Elliott (Author), Brent Elliott (Author), Andrew Clayton-Payne (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1988

  $3.24

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.24

  Picturesque tumbledown cottages, their gardens ablaze with roses, delphiniums, and hollyhocks, inspired a whole generation of Victorian artists. 130 inspired works by painters such as Helen Allingham, Claude Strachan, and David Woodlock, along with forty others, compose a fascinating and splendid historical record of the flowers and features that characterized the Victorian English country garden. .. .a cornucopia of entrancing watercolors. -- The Field. As happy a book as you are likely to meet. -- Arts Review.