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On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions By: Samuel Felton |
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THE PORTRAITS OF English Authors on Gardening, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THEM. Lately published, by the same Author, price 3s. GLEANINGS ON GARDENS; Chiefly respecting those of the Ancient Style in England.
PRINTED BY LOWE AND HARVEY, PLAYHOUSE YARD, BLACKFRIARS.
ON THE PORTRAITS OF ENGLISH AUTHORS ON GARDENING, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. Your painting is almost the natural man. Timon of Athens. A snapper up of unconsidered trifles. Winter's Tale. I will make a prief of it in my note book. M. W. of Windsor. BY S. FELTON. SECOND EDITION, WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS. [Illustration] LONDON: 1830. PUBLISHED BY EFFINGHAM WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE; AND JOSEPH ONWHYN,
CATHARINE STREET, STRAND.
PREFACE.
The following pages apply only to those English writers on gardening who
are deceased. That there have been portraits taken of some of those
sixty nine English writers, whose names first occur in the following
pages, there can be no doubt; and those portraits may yet be with their
surviving relatives or descendants. I am not so presumptuous as to apply
to the following most slight memorials, some of which relate to very
obscure persons, who claimed neither "the boast of heraldry, nor the
pomp of power," but whose useful toil,
Their homely joys and destiny obscure benefited society by their honest labour; I am not so vain as to apply
to these, any part of the high testimony which Sir Walter Scott has so
justly paid to the merit of Mr. Lodge's truly splendid work of the
portraits of celebrated personages of English history. I can only take
leave to disjoint, or to dislocate, or copy, a very few of his words,
and to apply them to the following scanty pages, as it must be
interesting to have exhibited before our eyes our fathers as they
lived , accompanied with such memorials of their lives and characters,
as enable us to compare their persons and countenances with their
sentiments: portraits shewing us how "our ancestors looked, moved, and
dressed," as the pen informs us "how they thought, acted, lived and
died." One cannot help feeling kindness for the memories of those whose
writings have pleased us.[1] What native of the county of Hereford, but must wish to see their
town hall ornamented with a life breathing portrait of Dr. Beale,
embodying, as it were, in the resemblance of the individual, (to use
the words of a most eloquent person on another occasion), "his spirit,
his feelings, and his character?" Or what elegant scholar but must wish
to view the resemblance of the almost unknown Thomas Whately, Esq., or
that of the Rev. William Gilpin, whose vivid pen (like that of the late
Sir Uvedale Price), has "realized painting," and enchained his readers
to the rich scenes of nature? Dr. Johnson calls portrait painting "that art which is employed in
diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the
affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead." The horticultural intercourse that now passes between England and
France, induces one to express a wish, that the portraits of many of
those delightful writers on this science, whose pens have adorned
France, (justly termed from its climate la terre classique
d'horticulture ), were selected and engraved; for many of their
portraits have never yet been engraved. If this selection were
accompanied with a few brief notices of them and their works, it would
induce many in this country to peruse some of the most fascinating
productions that ever issued from the press. Amongst so many, whose
portraits and memoirs would interest us, I will mention those of
Champier, who distinguished himself at the battle of Aignadel, and who
published at Lyons, in 1533, Campus Elisius Galliæ amenitate referens;
Charles Etienne, who, in 1529, produced his Prædium Rusticum; and who
with Leibault published the Maison Rustique, of which upwards of thirty
editions have been published, (and which our Gervase Markham calls a
work of infinite excellencie ); Paulmier de Grenlemesnil, a most
estimable man, physician to Charles IX... Continue reading book >>
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