Capability Brown's Blenheim park
1764–1774 · Work
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown remodels Blenheim's 2,000 acres for the 4th Duke of Marlborough, damming the Glyme into the Great Lake and grassing over the parterres; the crowning work of the English landscape garden.
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