Victorian Flower Gardens

About this book

Picturesque tumbledown cottages their gardens ablaze with roses delphiniums and hollyhocks inspired a whole generation of Victorian artists. 130 inspired works by painters such as Helen Allingham Claude Strachan and David Woodlock along with forty others compose a fascinating and splendid historical record of the flowers and features that characterized the Victorian English country garden. "...a cornucopia of entrancing watercolors."--The Field. "As happy a book as you are likely to meet."--Arts Review.