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Isaac de Caus: surveyor, grotto and garden designer

Isaac de Caus: surveyor, grotto and garden designer dianne duggan Isaac de Caus’s ‘fame’ is most often related to two main areas — the magical, figures in small lunettes still retain some of the mosaic mother-of-pearl and quintessentially mannerist grotto at Woburn Abbey, and the south front of tiny coloured pebbles that are ubiquitous in the grotto at Woburn, and it is 1 6 Wilton House with its stunning classical garden. He described himself as an clear that the two grottoes are from the same school. ‘ingenyeur et architecte’, an economical description, which seems to ignore his Indeed, de Caus’s next designed grottoes were probably at Bedford House more artistic and creative side. This paper is an overview of his works, on the Strand, and Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire for Francis Russell, the 4th including some little known, and particularly illuminates a facet of his Earl of Bedford. Bedford’s association with de Caus may have spanned six or architectural side that has previously been sidelined; for the term ‘architecte’ seven years, and was doubtless begun through the Frenchman’s professional then encompassed the work of the executant architect — that is, someone links with Inigo Jones. Bedford would have had in mind for quite some time who, in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes Taylor & Francis

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dianne duggan Isaac de Caus’s ‘fame’ is most often related to two main areas — the magical, figures in small lunettes still retain some of the mosaic mother-of-pearl and quintessentially mannerist grotto at Woburn Abbey, and the south front of tiny coloured pebbles that are ubiquitous in the grotto at Woburn, and it is 1 6 Wilton House with its stunning classical garden. He described himself as an clear that the two grottoes are from the same school. ‘ingenyeur et architecte’, an economical description, which seems to ignore his Indeed, de Caus’s next designed grottoes were probably at Bedford House more artistic and creative side. This paper is an overview of his works, on the Strand, and Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire for Francis Russell, the 4th including some little known, and particularly illuminates a facet of his Earl of Bedford. Bedford’s association with de Caus may have spanned six or architectural side that has previously been sidelined; for the term ‘architecte’ seven years, and was doubtless begun through the Frenchman’s professional then encompassed the work of the executant architect — that is, someone links with Inigo Jones. Bedford would have had in mind for quite some time who, in

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Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes – Taylor & Francis

Published: Sep 1, 2009

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