Garden Masters: Stowe Gardens
Image courtesy of the Huntington
Huntington Library
Mon, Oct 21, 2024
10:00 AM- 1:00 PM
In 1925, Henry E. Huntington purchased a vast archive documenting the eighteenth-century gardens at Stowe House in Buckinghamshire, England, Europe’s greatest picturesque landscape. This private appointment to see the Stowe collection at the Huntington Library will explore the extraordinary story behind the creation of Stowe Gardens, worked on by a succession of England’s finest landscape architects, Charles Bridgeman, William Kent, and Lancelot “Capability” Brown. Hosted by Vanessa Wilkie, the Huntington’s Senior Curator of Medieval Manuscripts and British History, participants will be introduced to the full expansiveness of the papers: accounts, deeds, rental records, legal documents, manorial court records, household books, inventories, correspondence, and financial records. The program includes lunch and passes to see the Huntington’s gardens and galleries after the program.
Location
Huntington Library
San Marino, California
Date and time
Monday, October 21
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Registration
$130 for Members of The Garden Conservancy
$150 for General Admission
For more information, please contact the Garden Conservancy by telephone 845.424.6500, M-F, 9-5 Eastern, or email events@gardenconservancy.org.