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Gathering ideas for an Irish garden: Lord and Lady Berehaven's Italian tourof 1842-1843

机译：收集爱尔兰花园的想法：Lord and Lady Berehaven的意大利旅游1842-1843

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A nineteenth-century photograph of the south front of Bantry House in County Cork, Ireland, evocatively captures the adjacent garden (Figure i). It features a fishpond, an iron circle, a labyrinthine parterre, an amphitheatre, a balustraded gallery walk and stairs surrounded by ascending terraces. Called the 'Italian Garden', this now somewhat altered landscape was created from 1844 by Richard White (1800—1868), Viscount Berehaven and afterwards 2nd Earl of Bantry.1 Evidently White's remodelling ofthe Bantry demesne was deeply influenced by memories of his Continental tours, first undertaken in the 1820s and sustained until the 1840s.2 Although the records of such travel are fragmentary, surviving passports nonetheless tell us that Italy was amonghis most favoured destinations.3 In fact, his many unpublished sketchbooks— Berehaven was an inveterate draftsman with a keen eye for topographical detail—demonstrate that his peregrinations across the territory offered opportunities to study its mostadmired gardens and landscapes. In attempting an assessment of the impact of Italy upon White's plans for refining the setting of his Irish home, the present study will focus attention on his last known journey over the Alps, undertaken in the winter of1842-1843, immediately before he embarked on the radical transformation of his estate. Happily, it is the best documented of all his foreign trips thanks to the survival of a securely dated yet little-studied sketchbook carried with him on this particular tour,4 not to mention an overlooked travel diary kept by his wife, Lady Mary (1805-1853), daughter of William O'Brien, 2nd Marquess of Thomond.5 Taken together, his images and her words not only reveal a shared fascinationwith the villas and parks of Italy but also provide an explanation for the aesthetic choices made in the design of the Italian Garden at Bantry. More than that, their personal testimonies are valuable for the light that they shed on the wider question concerning the success of the Italian garden in the Victorian age.
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