‘Saved from the sordid axe’: representation and understanding of pine trees by English visitors to Italy in the eighteenth and nineteenth century

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‘Saved from the sordid axe’: representation and understanding of pine trees by English visitors to Italy in the eighteenth and nineteenth century

Pine trees were frequently depicted and celebrated by nineteenth century English artists and travellers in Italy. The amateur artist and connoisseur Sir George Beaumont was horrified to discover in 1821 that many Roman stone pines were being felled and paid a landowner to preserve a prominent tree o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Piana, Pietro, Watkins, Charles, Balzaretti, Ross
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis 2016
Subjects:	Trees forestry Rome Liguria Claude Lorrain Grand Tour John Ruskin Lord Byron William Wordsworth
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30618/

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