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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Main Author: Watelet, Claude-Henri (Author)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
French
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2003
Series:Penn studies in landscape architecture
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
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Joseph Disponzio
  • Essay on Gardens ; On Gardens ; Utilitarian Establishments ; The Embellished Farm ; Early Parks ; Modern Parks ; The Nature of the Terrain ; Orientation ; Trees ; Water ; Space ; Flowers ; Rocks and Grottoes ; Garden Styles ; The Poetic Style ; The Romantic Style ; Pleasure Gardens ; The Chinese Garden ; The French Garden
  • Letter to a Friend.

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