English Landscape Garden

イングリッシュ・ランドスケープ・ガーデン / 1720s–1800s / Style / Garden Styles

An 18th-century English revolution that threw out geometry and built nature-seeming scenery by artifice. Rolling lawns, serpentine lakes and temples scattered across the view shaped the land itself into a picture, and the result became the prototype of the public park.

English Landscape Garden — Stourhead (CC BY-SA 4.0) · © Martinvl — Stourhead (CC BY-SA 4.0) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · © Martinvl

English Landscape Garden — Lake and temple at Stowe (CC BY-SA 2.0) · © Christine Matthews — Lake and temple at Stowe (CC BY-SA 2.0) · CC BY-SA 2.0 · © Christine Matthews

English Landscape Garden — Humphry Repton, plate from Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening 1795 — Wikimedia Commons / CC0 — Humphry Repton, plate from Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening 1795 — Wikimedia Commons / CC0 · CC0

At a glance

Visual cues

Rolling lawn and lake
Temples and follies
The concealed ha-ha fence
A sequence of pictorial views

Best used for

Parks and campuses shaped at scale without ever looking shaped
Grounds where the view from the building is composed as a picture

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Dictionary entry

Type: Keep names and notices at the building, no lettering in the view
Composition: No straight lines or symmetry, let lawn and water curve inward
Material: A sunk fence joins pasture to garden, trees planted in masses
Caution: Naturalness becomes an excuse for leaving the ground alone, so neither the modeled contours nor the massed trees appear and the lawn simply goes rough.
Further study: Capability Brown / William Kent / the Picturesque debate

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