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Thomas Whately (1726 – 26 May 1772), an English politician and writer, was a Member of Parliament (1761–1768) who served as Commissioner on the Board of Trade, as Secretary to the Treasury under Lord Grenville, and as Under-secretary of State under Lord North (1771–1772).
Thomas Whately (1726/28–1772) is generally remembered as a politician, although garden historians often see him only as the author of Observations on Modern Gardening. He was well known in public life and recognised also as a well-informed and cultured man with a literary bent.
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In Whately and Heely’s respective works a literary descriptive method to train the garden designer’s aesthetic judgement is applied. Thomas Whately closely connects conceptual discourse with ex-amples from garden scenes. He describes these ex-amples in such a poetic way as to make the selected scenes “live” in the reader’s imagination.
5 de jul. de 2016 · Thomas Whately (1726/28–1772) is generally remembered as a politician, although garden historians often see him only as the author of Observations on Modern Gardening. He was well known in public life and recognised also as a well-informed and cultured man with a literary bent.
Thomas Whately's Observations on Modern Gardening (1770) is the first and most comprehensive study of what has come to be known as the English landscape garden, often claimed to be this country's greatest original contribution to the fine arts.
12 de dic. de 2016 · Observations on Modern Gardening by Thomas Whately: An Eighteenth-Century Study of the English Landscape Garden. Paul Stamper University of Leicester paul.stamper52@gmail.com. Pages 189-190 | Published online: 12 Dec 2016. Cite this article. https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2016.1251050. CrossMark. Full Article. Figures & data. Citations. Metrics.
