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REVIEW ESSAY john dixon hunt The landscape work of Hal Moggridge in the UK is, at once, extremely local Rousham’ in volume 6/3 (pp. 187–226), with the copyright acknowledged and internationally important, despite the fact that his own account of his to the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England. Some, important career does not indicate any work outside Great Britain, though its but not all of that material, can be found in this book on pages 94–97. introductory chapters briefly reference sites in France, Germany, Italy and San His analysis of Rousham comes here in the section devoted to ‘Restoring Francisco. Slow Growth. On the Art of Landscape Architecture is, as its subtitle Eighteenth-Century Designed Landscapes’, where other sites like Blenheim, implies, a work on the very foundations of the field which he has practiced Croome Court and parklands in Devon and Staffordshire are discussed. What since 1970 (from which date he lists the partners, directors and design staff with seems to interest him above all in these projects is prospects, what Horace whom he and Brenda Colvin, with whom he collaborated until her death in Walpole had celebrated in his History of the Modern Taste in Gardening