Renowned landscape historian Michael Symes explores the history and techniques of printmaking and how prints of landscape gardens reflected and influenced fashion - sometimes at the expense of reality.
The author is a garden historian concerned particularly with the 18th-century landscape garden in Britain and Europe. He has written several garden history books, both general and specialised, contributed many articles of academic and more popular interest, and lectured at home and abroad. He has organised many study days and conferences, and is currently engaged in developing links with garden historians in continental countries. Before retirement he worked at Birkbeck, University of London, where he established the MA in Garden History. He is President of the Birkbeck Garden History Group and a Vice President of The Gardens Trust. He has been a historical consultant for the restoration of Painshill since 1981.
