by Horace Walpole · JOSÉ J. OLAÑETA EDITOR · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497162128
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«Ensayo sobre la jardinería moderna» is the essay by Horace Walpole, published by José J. de Olañeta in paperback (42 pages, in Spanish).
The essay reviews the evolution of landscape design and defends the aesthetics of the English garden. Its author, Horace Walpole, an eighteenth-century English novelist, historian, and collector, understands the garden as a painted landscape: nature ordered as a work of art.
Spanish edition published in 2003 in the El Barquero collection, with a translation by Plácido de Prada Planas.
For readers interested in gardening, landscape design, and art history, and in the origins of the English garden.
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, was a British Whig politician, writer, historian and antiquarian.
