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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Hannah ArmstrongPublisher: Liverpool University Press Imprint: Historic England ISBN: 9781800856097ISBN 10: 1800856091 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 14 March 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIllustration CreditsList of IllustrationsList of Abbreviations Introduction: In search of East London’s Lost Palace Part One: Sir Josiah Child, ‘The Albion Croesus’ (1673-99)Chapter One: Establishing a mercantile estate in the late 17th century Part Two: Richard Child, Viscount Castlemaine and 1st Earl Tylney (1704-50)Chapter Two: Richard Child and the early Wanstead landscape: ‘the noblest Gardens now in the Kingdom.’ (1704-13)Chapter Three: Colen Campbell and the rebuilding of Wanstead House (1713-17)Chapter Four: The Interiors of Wanstead House (1720-50)Chapter Five : The Artinatural Landscape (1725-50) Part Three: John Child, 2nd Earl Tylney (1750-85)Chapter Six: John Child and the late 18th-century landscape Chapter Seven: ‘A bird of passage’: John Child’s Italian sojourns Part Four: Catherine Tylney Long (1805-25)Chapter Eight: ‘The richest heiress of the British Dominions’Chapter Nine: The Pole Tylney Long Wellesleys at Wanstead: A Regency revival (1812-22)Chapter Ten: The Great Sales of Wanstead House (1822-24)Chapter Eleven: Return from exile EpilogueAppendixIndexReviews‘Wanstead House is lost but not forgotten and has always been acknowledged as one of the most important examples of English domestic architecture of its time… Hannah Armstrong gathers all this information, adds her own research, and uses it to illuminate the history of the lost palace and its gardens in a single well-produced volume which will appeal to a wide audience.’ Sally Jeffery, Garden History Author InformationHannah Armstrong completed her PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London, having previously studied at the University of Glasgow, where she graduated with a Masters with Distinction in Decorative Arts and Design History. In 2012, Hannah Armstrong was awarded the Anne Christopherson Fellowship at the British Museum's Prints and Drawings department. She lives in South West London. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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