title: Francis Bacon: Of Gardens, Essay 46, aus: Francis Bacon, The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, of Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount St. Alban (London: Printed by Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, 1625) (FONTES 18)
creator: Bacon, Francis
subject: ddc-720
subject: Architecture
subject: Great Britain, Ireland
subject: Architecture
subject: Artists, Architects
subject: Bacon, Francis / Of gardens
subject: Gartenkunst
description: Together with 'The Elements of Achitecture' by Henry Wotton (1624), Francis Bacon’s essay 'Of Gardens' (1625, no. 45) constitutes the earliest genuinely significant statement about the Garden and its form and functioning which was both in printed form and in English. Bacon proposes a plan or plot for the “princely garden”, partly in words with verbal prescriptions and partly with a draught or plan with which he gives the dimensions and layout of the garden. A glossary of technical and archaic terms and words is provided, in addition to: (1) a brief discussion of garden literature in England before 1625, (2) a biography of Bacon, (3) a summary bibliography of literature about Bacon and his writings. Full texts are provided of (1) Bacon’s dedication of his Essays in 1625 to the Duke of Buckingham and (2) Bacon’s essay, 'Of Gardens’. (Bacon’s essay, 'Of Building', was the subject of FONTES 16; http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/volltexte/2008/609/) An anthology of commentaries to Bacon’s 'Of Gardens' provides excerpts from the critical literature in English and German. Also included are extracts from the essay ‘Of Gardens’ in a German translation.
contributor: Davis, Charles
date: 2008
type: Book
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book
type: NonPeerReviewed
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/617/
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdokhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/617/1/Davis_Fontes18.pdf
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-artdok-6177
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
language: mul