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Garden of Villa Cusani, Desio: the lake
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SOURCE: Ercole Silva. Dell' arte de' giardini inglesi (Milan, 1813), vol. II, pl. XXXI
Tomb of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Island of Poplars, Ermenonville
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SOURCE: Alexandre Louis Joseph, comte de Laborde. Description des nouveaux jardins de la France (Paris, 1808), pl. 34
Royal Dairy, Frogmore, Windsor
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NOTES: Prince Albert designed and supervised the construction of the Dairy while the sculptor John Thomas was responsible for the design of the elaborate interiors and stonework.
Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, seen from its park
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NOTES: Fitzwilliam Square is the last of Dublin's Georgian squares. It was laid out in 1791, but the construction of all the houses was not completed until 1828.
Plan of proposed alterations to the grounds and house of Langley Park, Beckenham, London, prior to
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NOTES: This sketch is one of a number from Humphrey Repton's 'Red Book' for Langley Park, Beckenham, London, one of the seats of Sir Peter Burrell (1790). Repton would produce a Red Book for each of his proposed landscape schemes. These bound volumes of essays and watercolours served as persuasive marketing tools for his work and included both 'before' and 'after' views of the development sites utilising overlaid paper flaps to indicate Repton's suggested improvements.