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Essay on gardens : a chapter in the French picturesque translated into English for the first time
The result is a horticultural and ecological laboratory that includes a residence, a farm, stables, a dairy, an apiary, a mill, walks, vistas, flower beds, an area reserved for medicinal plants, decorative statues, a medical laboratory, and even a small infirmary for ailing members of the community....
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English French |
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Philadelphia
: University of Pennsylvania Press
, 2003
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| Series: | Penn studies in landscape architecture
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| Online Access: | http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/jstor-ebooks-art/www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt4cgh00 |
| Related Items: | Print version:
Essay on gardens |
| Author Notes: | Claude-Henri Watelet ; edited and translated by Samuel Danon ; introduction by Joseph Disponzio |
| E-Book Packages: | JSTOR E-Books in Art, Design and Photography |
| Summary: | The result is a horticultural and ecological laboratory that includes a residence, a farm, stables, a dairy, an apiary, a mill, walks, vistas, flower beds, an area reserved for medicinal plants, decorative statues, a medical laboratory, and even a small infirmary for ailing members of the community." "Given the wide scholarly interest in the field of garden design and its history, this first English edition of Watelet's small but influential book will interest historians of landscape design as well as students of the history of architecture."--Jacket |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-87) |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 90 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780812237221 0812204131 0812237226 9780812204131 |
