Rousham House
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Rousham House is a country house at Rousham in Oxfordshire, England. The house, which has been continuously in the ownership of one family, was built circa 1635 and remodelled by William Kent in the 1
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The river Cherwell
Statue based on the Dying Gaul (or Dying Gladiator) in Rome
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English landscape garden
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The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden, is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Eu
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…the huge transformation of the gardens to its current appearance. Initially he employed Charles Bridgeman to lay out the gardens in the new and more naturalistic style that was becoming popular. Bridgeman's layout of the garden was completed circa 1737. Rousham was then inherited by the Colonel's brother, General James…
A monopteros at Stowe Gardens (1730–1738)
The paintings of Claude Lorrain inspired Stourhead and other English landscape gardens.
Castle Howard (1699–1712), a predecessor of the English garden modelled on the gardens of Versailles
Ionic Temple at Chiswick House in west London