14 LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



PAINTING 



Various schools of painting have had a pro- 

 found influence upon landscape design, particu- 

 larly in England. The influence seems to have 

 been exerted chiefly in the decorative composition 

 of mass and space relations, as the silhouetting of 

 planting masses against the sky and the tj^Des of 

 plantmg. A book by Sir Uvedale Price upon the 

 "Picturesque and the Beautiful," which ap- 

 peared at the end of the eighteenth century, advo- 

 cated the imitation of the work of Claude Lor- 

 rain by landscape-gardeners in their planting, 

 even to the introduction of stumps and dead trees 

 as a part of the scheme to lend a picturesque 

 charm; he nevertheless admitted that formal gar- 

 dening was best near the house. Here the roman- 

 tic point of view seems to have been the precursor 

 of the rustic monstrosities in cement and iron 

 w^hich unfortunately have a large sale even at the 

 present day. In America the fad reached its 

 greatest height about 1865. Cast-iron dogs, deer, 

 and other sylvan creations must be laid at the door 

 of painting rather than of sculpture, for the man- 

 ufacturers of these ohjets d'art probably got their 



