General Plan of the most Noble House & Gardens of the Earl Temple at Stow

The garden of Stowe in Buckinghamshire is perhaps the most famous early English landscape garden. As there was great interest in the garden among English and foreign artists and aristocratic visitors, it was the subject of the first garden guide ever published – in 1744.

General Plan of the most Noble House & Gardens of the Earl Temple at Stow, copperplate engraving by George Bickham Jnr (ca. 1706–1771) from M. Chatelin, 1753; image source: Archiv Iris Lauterbach.