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Article: Captain Cook's long journey to elysium: the monument to Captain James Cook in the garden at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, has recently been restored. Richard Wheeler explains why it was erected not in the garden's Elysian Fields, but on an island in the Styx.
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- November 1, 2004
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The gardens at Stowe are justifiably recognised as one of the supreme expositions of political and moral allegory in the eighteenth century. Their creator, Richard Temple, Viscount Cobham (1675-1749), employed the best architects and garden designers to put into buildings and landscapes the moral precepts by which his raft of political nephews should mould their lives. (1) Thus, whilst the western part of the garden is dedicated to the trials and pitfalls of the path of Vice, the little valley below the old parish church of Stowe is dedicated to Virtue. This latter part of the gardens is one of the most important works by the artist architect William Kent (1685-1748), and ...
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