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Whigs, 1829-1861. 24cm.344p. £27.50 Univ. Chicago P
... Whigs, 1829-1861. 24cm.344p. £27.50 Univ. Chicago P. ...
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... Britain-was a protest against the nouveau riche Whigs by the Earl of Strafford, commander of the Jacobites in the north ofEngland. The most brilliant duel was between Joseph Addison and Alexander Pope. Addison, a Whig, believed that a country estate should be ...
ILLIAM HOGARTH's series of four paintings known as 'An Election' have, together with his 'Rake's Progress', ..
... Tories portrait been slashed. The Whig of insincerity removing pretty girl outside, the mop up by rival party. and such cynical Hogarth, ings- the immaculately polling Tory candidates being afterwards-was in triumph Whigs many years not bothered to contest ...
assumption comes from a mid-Victorian source, W. H. Smyth's Aedes Hartwellianae, which states that 'by about ..
... pictures commis- sioned? The key to this lies in the meaning of the garden for, like Stowe, it is a Whig paradise. Sir Thomas sat in Parliament as a Whig, and the political affiliation of his garden is celebrated by a local poet, a Mr Merrick of Aylesbury: ...
common with what we know of Hawksmoor's architectural language'
... circle of patrons; the fact that he was created Lord Lempster in 1692 alone shows that he must have been in with the ruling Whigs. A more direct connection comes through his marriage the same year to Sophia Osborne, the daughter of Thomas Osborne, Marquess ...
ROYAL MYSTERY
... Lees had neighbour Stowe, century, but had of Parliament garden reproduced beguiling images. But newly design embodying Whig olutely Whig. Sir Thomas previously eight pictures Of paintings merely possession and, expression of such, they take such garden years ...
this order at the time this ceiling was painted. Elsewhere, there are allusions to the Templars, the ..
... is perhaps the earliest instance of Burlington himself being described as a ‘member of the Whig aristocracy’. Christopher Hussey included an account of ‘The Whig Ideal’ in English Country Houses: Early Georgian (1955), concluding: ‘That was to be the accepted ...
A LIFE TOO LATE
... Sterne: A Life lan Campbell Ross ( Oifard Universi!J Press, £2 5)) politics. He was enlisted as a polemicist on behalf of the Whigs in York, where he was a prebendary at the cathedral. Although he showed a knack for writing, he managed to make a fool of himself ...
From ground level: origins of the landscape park
... artistic pursuit to the gradual exclusion of more serious activities’. His association with William Kent, Lord Burlington and the Whig leaders led to the stylish layout of his park in 1730–40. Castle Hill illustrates the transitional stage that left behind ...
'Repton believed cottages added cheerfulness'
... George Devey and Norman Shaw, and its 'stockbroker Tudor' progeny, the style was selected by the 6th Duke ofßedford, one of the Whig magnates who figured largely among Repton's richer clients. He wanted a 'cottage of the style and date ofbuildings prior to ...
COUNTRY LIFE
... latest property and country news, plus opportunities to enter competitions and take part in our surveys. with the Famous: 'Other Whig opinions, such as his enthusiasm for Catholic emancipation, ensured banishment to a country parish in Yorkshire, so out of ...