Croome Court
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Croome Court is a mid-18th-century Neo-Palladian mansion surrounded by extensive landscaped parkland at Croome D'Abitot, near Upton-upon-Severn in south Worcestershire, England. The mansion and park w
The southern façade of Croome Court
Croome Court South Portico
The Tapestry Room, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
... and the Tapestry Room at Croome Court today
Capability Brown
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Lancelot "Capability" Brown was an English gardener and landscape architect, a notable figure in the history of the English landscape garden style.
Croome Court
…by extensive landscaped parkland at Croome D'Abitot, near Upton-upon-Severn in south Worcestershire, England. The mansion and park were designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown for George Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry, and they were Brown's first landscape design and first major architectural project. Some of the mansion's…
Portrait of Capability Brown by Nathaniel Dance, 1769
Ha-ha (the hidden ditch in the foreground) and house at Berrington Hall in Herefordshire, Brown's last big project, a new-build designed by his son-in-law, placed to exploit views in two directions.
Badminton House in Gloucestershire: features of the Brownian landscape at full maturity in the 19th century
Brown's Pond at Sandleford, Berkshire. One of a string of former priory fish ponds adapted by Brown who was at Sandleford on behalf of Elizabeth Montagu from 1781.