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Article: SIR JOHN VANBRUGH AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN BAROQUE ENGLAND 1690-1730.(Review)
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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Edited by Christopher Ridgway and Robert Williams. Stroud: Sutton Publishing in association with the National Trust. 2000. [pound]25
The most startling disclosure in these 11 essays by different scholars is that Vanbrugh was in. India in 1683-85 as a junior merchant in the East India Company. Moreover, Robert Williams reproduces a previously unpublished plan by Vanbrugh of 1711 for a six acre garden cemetery on the edge of London which, he claims, is based on the cemetery Vanbrugh knew at Surat on the west coast of India. With its pyramids, obelisk, spires, and domed mausolea, set among trees, Vanbrugh's accompanying elevation is a visionary drawing which is 'by ...