Horace Walpole, The History of the Modern Taste in Gardening

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  • Art Theory and History

Dates

  • First circulation or publication 1780

Places

  • 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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