Conférence en ligne : "Re-interpreting an Eighteenth Century Collection: Henry Hoare the collector, a Roman statue, and a lost wife" (16 Juillet 2020, 19h30)

Abstract

The Society for the History of Collecting Invites you to its third online lecture Re-interpreting an Eighteenth Century Collection: Henry Hoare the collector, a Roman statue, and a lost wife Prof. John Harrison 16 Juillet 2020, 19h30 (6.30pm BST) Modern readings of the iconography in Henry Hoare’s eighteenth-century landscape garden at Stourhead in Wiltshire have typically been founded on the assumption that the garden was designed according to a Grand Plan. On this view, garden ..