A dissertation on oriental gardening /
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23512987 |
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| Authors | William Chambers, Francesco Bartolozzi, Giovanni Battista Cipriani, William Griffin (0000-0002-8519-2288) |
| Year | 1773 |
| Publication date | 1773-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Publisher | Printed by W. Griffin, printer to the Royal Academy : sold by him in Catherine-street, and by T. Davies ... : also by J. Dodsley ... Wilson and Nicoll ... J. Walter ... and P. Elmsley ..., (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5962/bhl.title.60926 |
| OpenAlex | W4205861000 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
with the accidental intervention of living or moving objects, vary the appearances fo often, and fo coniiderably, that it is almoft impoflible to be cloyed, even with the fame profpects.Is it not lingular then, that an Art with which a confiderable part of our enjoyments is fo univerfally connected, mould have no regular profeflbrs in our quarter of the world ?Upon the continent it is a col- lateral branch of the Architect's employment ; who, immerfed in the fludy and avocations of his own pro- feflion, finds no leifure for other difquffitions : and, in this illandj it is abandoned to kitchen gardeners, well /killed in the culture of fallads, but little acquainted with the principles of Ornamental Gardening.It cannot be expelled that men, uneducated, and doomed by their condition to wafle the vigor of life in hard labour, mould ever go far in fo refined, fo difficult a purfuit.To this unaccountable want of regular mailers may, in a great meafure, be afcribed the fcarcity of perfect A 2 gardens V?
| Citations per year | 0.43 |
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| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |