ABSTRACT
The Picturesque was founded on the claim that, as Horace Walpole put it, ‘an open country is but a canvas on which a landscape might be designed . . . and every journey is made through a succession of pictures.’2 For the French architect and writer Jean-Marie Morel, gardening was even more faithful to nature than painting. Although ‘gardening and painting have something in common,’ they differ, he wrote, because one ‘creates nature,’ while ‘the other imitates it.’3
