The estimable Mr L of the Barbican, London, writes in search of some understanding of the different types of cascade used by everybody’s idea of the perfect place-maker, Capability Brown, in the course of his career.
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So Horace Walpole thought that that great and gracious gardener, the good Capability Brown got his ideas from William Kent and Philip Southcote. ‘Who?’ exclaimed the sociable Mr Honey when I told him. ‘William Kent? – Furniture designer, set painter, associate of Burlington’ ‘Not him, the other one.’
The teleological theory of history holds that it may take several ‘transitional’ generations for one great idea to be brought to birth.