Anybody with an interest in Britain's aristocratic history should head to the Royal Academy of Arts over the coming months for a significant exhibition.

The display, called A Secure Delight, is a series of illustrated garden plans by 18th century landscape surveyor John Rocque.

Rocque's drawings are seen by the Royal Academy collectors as the most important surviving visual record of the great aristocratic gardens of the early 1700s.

The pieces reveal how painter and architect William Kent laid the foundations of a new kind of landscape garden.

London hotel visitors will be able to see the series of intricately designed drawings in the Royal Academy's library print room until July 4th.

A related exhibition being held at the Piccadilly gallery until May 25th features architectural drawings by Richard Norman Shaw, who was considered to have changed the face of English architecture in the late 19th century.

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