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Category Archives: Art and architecture
The Picturesque Landscape
It’s Chelsea Week again, and I’ve been reading Practical Hints upon Landscape Gardening by William Sawrey Gilpin, nephew of the more famous William Gilpin.
Posted in Art and architecture, Biography, Gardening, History, Literary Studies
Tagged Humphry Repton, Richard Payne Knight, Uvedale Price, William Gilpin
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Two Roving Englishwomen
Even in these days of avalanches of instant information, the CLC team occasionally comes across an author about whom we cannot find out anything except that s/he wrote a particular book and therefore may be presumed to have flourished at … Continue reading
Ruthin’s Most Famous Son
I have been to Wales on only one occasion, and that was a day trip to from Cambridge to St Asaph in my relatively sprightly youth. I feel that this did not really do justice to the Principality, and that … Continue reading
Emerging From The Archives
Just back from Venice, where a surreal moment was provided by a group of Estonians in full art-folkloric fig in Campo S. Stefano, where presumably they had been singing and/or dancing on a temporary stage raised against the church wall. Him Indoors … Continue reading
The Foundling Hospital
If you are in London, at a loose end, but not yet tired of life, try the Foundling Museum.
Posted in Art and architecture, Biography, History, Music
Tagged Foundling Hospital, Foundling Museum, Handel, Hogarth, Thomad Coram
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