The hermit in the garden : from Imperial Rome to ornamental gnome /
Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commiss...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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