Classical Influences on Georgian Stourhead

TITLE: CALEDONIA’S “VIRGILIAN ELYSIUM”: THE RECOVERY AND REINVENTION OF ROMAN SCOTLAND AT PENICUIK HOUSE.ABSTRACT: Sir John Clerk of Penicuik (1676-1755) is now recognised as Scotland’s preeminent eighteenth-century Romanist antiquarian. His interest in ancient Rome was piqued... Read More →

TITLE: DELOS IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY GARDEN ABSTRACT: The Aegean island of Delos was a rich source of antiquities for seventeenth- and eighteenth-century collectors.  Densely populated in Antiquity, it had become completely uninhabited, and passing travellers could help themselves... Read More →

TITLE: THE INTEGRAL PORTRAYAL OF COUNTRY HOUSE, GARDEN AND ESTATE AT HERRIARD HOUSE IN HAMPSHIRE.ABSTRACT: Using the case study of George Purefoy Jervoise of Herriard House in Hampshire, I shall demonstrate the vital relationship between country house, garden and estate, all combining... Read More →

TITLE: ‘TRACED WITH GREAT TASTE’: RECREATING ARCADIA AT KEDLESTON HALL. ABSTRACT: Kedleston Hall has been hailed as a masterpiece of eighteenth-century neo-classicism – a temple of the arts built by the ambitious Nathaniel Curzon with the help of the equally ambitious Robert... Read More →