Capability Brown. Designing the English landscape (from the library of Criss Canning)

Principal photography by Joe Cornish. New York : Rizzoli, 2016. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 280, extensively illustrated, a fine copy.

‘Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown’s designs are organic, weaving gestures of colour and perspective into the features that the country already afforded. So natural are his designs, and so perfectly do they complement the houses within them, that for many a Capability Brown landscape is the epitome of the English estate. His gardens and parklands as much as the houses themselves would become icons of British country life. Published to coincide with the tercentenary of his birth, this book illuminates fifteen of Brown’s most celebrated landscapes. Including rarely seen archival drawings that shed light on Brown’s process, this book serves as a guide to Britain’s most beloved landscapes and an exploration of the masterful mind behind their creation.’ – the publisher

From the library of noted Australian artist Criss Canning, signed in ink on the front free endpaper.

Provenance:

Criss Canning, acquired in 2023