The hermit in the garden : from Imperial Rome to ornamental gnome / Gordon Campbell.

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Campbell, Gordon

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191644481
019164448X
9780199696994
0199696993
9781299277052
1299277055

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hermit in the Garden : From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome.DDC classification:

717.094109033 23

LOC classification:

SB457.6 .C36 2014eb

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Contents:

Origins and Antecedents -- The Idea of the Hermit -- The Hermits -- The Hermitage in Georgian England -- The Hermitage in the Celtic Lands -- The Afterlife of the Hermit.

Summary: 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 either with imaginary hermits or with real hermits - in some cases the landowner even became his own hermit. Those.

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Origins and Antecedents -- The Idea of the Hermit -- The Hermits -- The Hermitage in Georgian England -- The Hermitage in the Celtic Lands -- The Afterlife of the Hermit.

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 either with imaginary hermits or with real hermits - in some cases the landowner even became his own hermit. Those.