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THE CLAUDIANSPortraits of John Claudius Loudon, Jane Webb Loudon, Claudius Buchanan |
The Claudians is a fictionalised expansion of Jane Web Loudon's biography of John Claudius Loudon extended to include his missionary cousin, Claudius Buchanan: it's hard to understand one of them without understanding the other. Before 1st December 2024. The Claudians is available on Amazon. The author is Tom Turner - the editor of the Gardenvisit.com website.
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The links below take you to the first batch of Companion Pages providing the factual background to The Claudians. Over 300 pages have been published. Below, there are links to 70+ pages and to chapter-specific pages with the other links.
Somers, Buchanan and Loudon Family Trees -
John Claudius Loudon: an Appreciation -
Reverend Dr. Claudius Buchanan: an Appreciation -
Enlightenment, Romanticism and War -
The historical canvas 1800-1830 -
Loudon's history of garden design-
Loudon's gardening and architecture magazines -
Corrections to the birth dates of John Loudon, Claudius Buchanan and Jane Webb -
Why is John Martin's painting of The Plains of Heaven used on the cover of The Claudians?-
- See more info Introduction,
- See more info Chapter 1: Somers and Buchanans,
Loudon's first article, on Public Squares in London -
Edinburgh Old Town and New Town -
Commercial Academy 20 South Bridge Street, Edinburgh -
- See more info Chapter 2: Loudons,
Crown Court Church, Covent Garden -
Claudius Buchanan travelled on elephants -
Buchanan at Queen’s College, Cambridge -
- See more info Chapter 3: Indian Mission,
Firth of Forth and Calton Hill -
James Sowerby house Mead Place -
- See more info Chapter 4: Picturesque Gardens,
Loudon design for Great Tew Farm -
- See more info Chapter 5: Farming Landscapes,
Napoleon's retreat and Loudon's advance -
- See more info Chapter 6: Prussian Gardens,
Tykocin (Tykocyn) Village, Poland -
- See more info Chapter 7: Russian Gardens,
- See more info Chapter 8: Buchanan’s Destiny,
Belvedere at Frascati: Villa Aldobrandini Garden -
- See more info Chapter 9: Italian Gardens,
Steamships from Brighton Pier -
Thomas Blaikie Scottish Gardener -
- See more info Chapter 10: Gardenesque Gardens,
Jeremy Bentham: the father of utilitarian town planning -
John Claudius Loudon’s Breathing Places: Vision for Green Zones in London -
- See more info Chapter 11: Utilitarian Landscapes,
The Mummy by Jane Webb Loudon -
Porchester Terrace: Loudons' Home -
- See more info Chapter 12: Marriage,
Loudon's Circular Glasshouse design -
Loudon and the term 'landscape architecture' -
- See more info Chapter 13: Landscape Architecture,
Loudon's design for Pinner Tomb -
- See more info Chapter 14: Family Reunion,
Portraits of John Claudius Loudon -
- See more info Chapter 15: Loudon’s Zenith,
John Claudius Loudon and the rise of Landscape Architecture -
Kensal Green Cemetery - Loudon's Burial Place -
- See more info Chapter 16: Valedictory,
- See info Afterword.
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Ch 1. George Whitefield preaching
Ch 2. George Street in Edinburgh's Neoclassical New Town
Ch 2. Edinburgh New Town
Ch 2. Moray Place Edinburgh
Ch 2. View from Calton Hill Edinburgh
Ch 3. Suttee (wife burning) in East India
Ch 3. The Garden Reach in Calcutta was like an English landscape garden
Ch 4. Blenheim Palace, which Loudon liked better than most of Lancelot Brown's work
Ch 5. Loudon's Ferm Ornée pioneered a landscape approach to agriculture
Ch 6. Napoleon's retreat from Moscow allowed Loudon's advance
Ch 7. Tsarskoye Selo, Pushkin, is a fine English Garden in Russia
Ch 7. Peter the Great led Loudon to wonder about autocracy
Ch 8. Buchanan believed he was predestined for heaven
Ch 9. Dean Mahomed broke Loudon's arm in Brighton
Ch 11. Parc Monceau in Paris was planted by a Scot, Thomas Blaikie
Ch 11. Jeremy Bentham, like Loudon, had a utilitarian approach to urban planning
Ch 12. The artist, John Martin, was a witness at the Loudon's wedding
Ch 12. Loudon designed his home-office in Porchester Terrace with a Gardenesque front garden
Ch 12. Jane Loudon and John Claudius Loudon
Ch 13. On his honeymoon, Loudon designed a fabulous glass house for Birmingham Botanical Garden
Ch14. Loudon designed the mysterious Tomb in Pinner
Ch 15. Great Stove Chatsworth: designed by Paxton and inspired by Loudon
Ch 16. The Loudons are buried in Kensal Green