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The Hermit in the Garden

From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome

The Hermit in the Garden( )
Author: Campbell, Gordon
ISBN:978-1-299-27705-2
Publication Date:Jan 2013
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $61.16
Book Description:

Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commission architectural follies for their landscape gardens. These follies often included hermitages, many of which still survive, often in a ruined state. Landowners peopled their hermitages...
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