Levens Hall, Cumbria: the topiary garden
Architect/Designer | Beaumont, Guillaume (fl. 1689-1712) |
Artist/Photographer | Smith, Edwin (1912-1971) |
Country | UK: England |
City | Levens |
Subject Date | 1712 |
Image Date | 1962 |
View | Exterior |
Medium | Photoprint |
Library Reference | ESP/GDN/1228 (ES2048.6) |
Orientation | Landscape |
Colour Info | Black and white |
Credit | Edwin Smith / RIBA Collections |
Subject | Country houses ; Gardens ; Topiary |
NOTES: This Elizabethan house became the property of Colonel James Grahame in 1688 after his career at Court in the service of King James II. He employed a young French gardener, Guillaume Beaumont, a pupil of Le Notre at Versailles, to plan a fashionable garden in 1689-1712. The garden has survived in its original design and the topiary is some of the oldest in the world.
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