A military encampment at the Garden at the British Museum 1780

View of the Emcampment in the Museum Garden. August 5th, 1780. by James Fittler Published by George Knowles (after Paul Sandby) 1780

18C Euro Gardens - Dutch Garden

1730 Johann Baptiste Bouttats (Belgian artist, 1680-1743) Dutch Mansion with Garden

18C English Garden with garden-bench, greenhouse, urn, espaliered wall, & flower pots. 1786

1786 Unknown artist. John Coakley Lettsom (1733–1810), with His Family, in the Garden of Grove Hill, Camberwell.

This 1786 painting of the Lettsom family offers much to explore in 18C garden developments in England & how those translated across the Atlantic to early American gardens.  The painting is notable for its close-up images of a garden bench, greenhouse, urn, espaliered wall, & flower pots.

John Coakley Lettsom (1733–1810) was a Quaker & a well known figure of the English Enlightenment, the movement in the 18C towards freedom of thought & equality of rights for all mankind. Born in the Virgin Islands, he sailed to Britain & was apprenticed as a surgeon-apothecary in Yorkshire.  After returning to the West Indies to free the slaves he had inherited, he came back to Britain, became a physician, & acquired immense wealth through his medical practice catering toward many rich & noble patients. He used his wealth in numerous philanthropic projects, such as the Aldersgate Street Dispensary, which gave free medical care & soup kitchens, & the Royal Humane Society, which was concerned with saving people from drowning. He also promoted charity through essays on slum housing, alcohol abuse, & the problems of the blind. As an apothecary, he was also a dedicated gardener, & the painting shows him in the garden of his house in Camberwell, with his wife & 5 of his children. 

18C Euro Gardens - Austrian Statues, Fountains,& Parklands

Austrian painter Franz Christoph Janneck (1703-1761) A Palace Garden With Elegant Figures Feasting And Making Merry

 Austrian painter Franz Christoph Janneck (1703-1761)  Fêtes Champêtres in a Park

 Austrian painter Franz Christoph Janneck (1703-1761) Elegant Garden Scene in a Park with Statues & Fountains 1735

 Austrian painter Franz Christoph Janneck (1703-1761)  An Elegant Company Merrymaking in a Wooded Parkland

 Austrian painter Franz Christoph Janneck (1703-1761)  Lunch on the Grass under a Statue in a Park

Austrian painter Franz Christoph Janneck (1703-1761) An Elegant Company near a Garden Fountain

Early 18C Bavarian View with Gardens

1700 M. Diesel, Bavarian engraver. Prospect of a splendid Canals Annex with a precious Casade know to the beginning of an end garden or can be built

Picking Apples - Autumn 1700s

1750s Autumn; print; John Bowles (Published by); James McArdell (Print made by); 1753-1766; London

Early 18C Bavarian View with Gardens

1700 M. Diesel, Bavarian engraver. Prospect and perspective of Gräffl. Fugger Lustgarten to Mauthausen together with the Lusthaus as selbes to view the part of the garden.

Picking Apples 1700s

1778 Autumn Carington Bowles (Published by) John Collet (After) 1778-1779 London

Early 18C Bavarian View with Gardens

1700 M. Diesel, Bavarian engraver. M. Prospect of Nyche to End of the Princely Bosque. Lustgarten Mirabell.

Early 18C English Gardens - Broadwell, the Seat of Danvers Hodges

Broadwell the seat of Danvers Hodges Esq. Johannes Kip (1653-1722) The Ancient & Present State of Gloucestershire, pub by Sir Robert Atkyns 1712. 

British History Online tells us that Evesham Abbey claimed that King Coenred gave it Broadwell in 708. If the claim was just, the abbey later lost Broadwell for a time, because c. 1034 the estate was 'redeemed' from Canute for the abbey by Ælfweard, Bishop of London.  The abbey held Broadwell manor. The abbey was granted free warren in Broadwell in 1251, &  in 1276 claimed the assize of bread &  ale. Broadwell was held with the abbey's estate at Bourton-on-the-Water by service of one knight's fee.

The population of Broadwell may have fallen slightly between the 11C & the 16C. Domesday enumerated 48 persons, including 13 servi; in 1327, 20 people were assessed for the subsidy; in 1381, 71 people paid poll tax; &  in 1563 there were about 20 households. The evidence for population in the 17C is contradictory; for example, there were said to be about 24 families in 1650, while 42 householders were listed in the hearth tax assessment of 1672. The only violent disturbance known to have impinged on Broadwell occurred in 1646, when the parliamentary army came up on the rear of royalist forces between Donnington &  Stow.

Part of the abbey's estate in Broadwell was not sold with the manor in 1545. In 1619, the manor itself, apparently comprising only the demesne, was bought by Anthony Hodges &  William Chadwell, who divided it between themselves in 1621. The moiety of Anthony Hodges, which included the manor-house of which Hodges was in possession in 1619, descended in his family to Danvers Hodges (d. 1721), who devised his estate to his 3 nieces, Anne, Mary, &  Martha. 

Early 18C Bavarian View with Gardens

1700 M. Diesel, Bavarian engraver. Prospect of a splendid lush garden, including the building, as can be seen from the side of the garden.

A Garden in the Background - 1734 Gardens at Hanbury Hall

1734 John Wootton (British artist, 1682–1764) Bowater Vernon (1683–1735), with Hanbury Hall and Its Formal Garden

Early 18C Bavarian View with Gardens

1700 M. Diesel, Bavarian engraver. Prospect the front part and entrance of the princely garden to Hellebrunn.

A Garden in the Background - Garden Terraces by Philippe Mercier (French artist, 1689-1760)

Philippe Mercier (French artist, 1689-1760) A Music Party 1737-40

 Philippe Mercier (French artist, 1689-1760) Prince of Wales and his sisters 1733 making music in the garden

Philippe Mercier (French artist, 1689-1760) The Schultz Family and their Friends on a Garden Terrace 1725

Early 18C Bavarian View with Gardens

1700 M. Diesel, Bavarian engraver. Prospect of the Baron Meyrischen Cascaden and Lusthaus zu Harlaching together with Munich as seen from midnight.