This talk looks at a series of paintings from the 16th to the 18th centuries which feature gardens, and helps the audience to see beyond the obvious.  Are the pictures useful evidence for the history of gardens?  Are they `accurate’ descriptions?  What else might they be telling us?

This is one of a series of eight weekly lectures on art history.

You can buy a ticket for all eight for just £40 here

or you buy a ticket for this lecture only for £7.50 here.

Doors open at 1:30 pm for a 2 pm start. The session is two hours long including an interval when we will serve tea and coffee.

Getting to the Leatherhead Institute

The Institute is at the top of Leatherhead High Street, KT22 8AH, on the corner with Leret Way. Leatherhead is served by bus from Kingston and by bus and train from Guildford, Dorking and Epsom. Nearby car parks are the Swan Centre multi-storey on Leret Way (KT22 7JL) and the surface car park on Station Road (KT22 7AF). There is little or no free parking in the town during the day.