Essay on gardens
Subtitle: a chapter in the French picturesque translated into English for the first time
By: Claude-Henri Watelet ; edited and translated by Samuel Danon ; introduction by Joseph Disponzio.
Contributors: Danon, Samuel, 1937-
Series: Penn studies in landscape architecture
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: Gardens -- France -- Early works to 1800.; Gardens, French -- Early works to 1800.; Picturesque, The -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Work titles: Essai sur les jardins.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [85]-87).