Horace Walpole, The History of the Modern Taste in Gardening

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.05: English Writing and Culture from the Glorious Revolution to the French Revolution, 1689-1789.
Vol. editors: Paul Baines (University of Liverpool), Robert Clark (The Literary Encyclopedia), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Pat Rogers (University of South Florida), Nicholas Seager (University of Keele)

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Art Theory and History

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First circulation or publication 1780

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England (Country of Origin)

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Walpole's History was printed at his home, Strawberry Hill, in 1771, but first published as an appendix to the four volumes of his Anecdotes of Painting in England in 1780 and became widely influential.

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