[Garden architecture & ornament
Subtitle: 15 watercolors & 3 pencil drawings]
Publisher: publisher not identified
Published: 1861
Place of publication: Germany?
Language: und
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: Garden structures; German; History; Pictorial works; Gardens; Landscape architecture; Landscape gardening; Garden ornaments and furniture; Romanticism
Other titles: Garden architecture and ornament
Notes: Title devised by cataloger.

"Fine album containing 15 watercolours and 3 pencil drawings with detailed garden scenes. The watercolours show various views of a garden designed in the English Romantic landscape style, including garden architecture, ornaments, and garden furniture. The drawings are signed M.H. and F.H. and dated 1861-1863 [some, not all, of the drawings are signed and dated]. Most likely all of the drawings were made in one specific (city) garden (in Hamburg?)"--Bookseller Antiquariaat Forum description.

"M.H." embossed on front cover in gilt lettering.

Illustrations/plates are mounted; illustration/plate descriptions in Contents supplied by bookseller Antiquariaat Forum.

Plates 1-15 are color watercolors, plates 16-18 are "pencil" drawings.

Border(s) around most illustrations.

Plate 1 signed M.H. and date 24 / 12.61. [1861] in pencil, below image, outside of border lower left; plate 3 signed M.H. and date 24 / 12.62. [1862] in pencil, below image, outside of border lower left; plate 5 signed F.H. (appears as "H") and date 1863., lower right below image; plate 7 signed F.H. (appears as "H") and date 1862, lower right below image; plate 8 signed M.H. in and date 24 /12.61. [1861] in pencil, below image, outside of border lower left; plate 9 signed M.H. and date 21 / 5.63. [1863] in pencil, below image, outside of border lower left; plate 11 signed M.H. and date 21 / 5.63. [1863] in pencil, below image, outside of border lower right; plate 12 signed F.H. and date 24 / 12. 62. [1862] in pencil, below image, outside of border lower left; plate 15 signed M.H. and date 21 / 5.63. [1863] in pencil, below image, outside of border lower left; plate 16 signed F.H. and date 24 / 12.61. [1861] in pencil, lower right below image; plate 17 signed F.H. and date 24 / 12.61. [1861] in pencil, lower right below image, outside of border; cannot identify artists M.H. and F.H.
Table of contents: title: 1. Garden view with gardener at work with a pond and a stately nineteenth-century villa with mansard roof in the background; title: 2. Garden view with path, lawn and in the background a roof of the same villa; title: 3. View on the coach house with in front a coach, sleeping dog and chickens; title: 4. Garden view with pond, garden bench, and two large trees at right; title: 5. Garden view with circular seating area (a bower) with 3 benches and a table under hanging trees; title: 6. Garden view with corridor of trees ending at a wall with seating area; title: 7. Garden view with pink and purple flower borders, a seating under a pergola and in the background the rooftop of a villa; title: 8. Garden view with seating area under trees in front of a wall; title: 9. Garden view with stone stairs and exotic plants in borders and on an elevation a bench; title: 10. Garden view with an elevated terrace with stone stairs and a gallery underneath; title: 11. Garden view showing a corner of the garden with a seating area and five trees on an elevation surrounded by two walls; title: 12. Garden view with flower border and orange foliage of climbing plants hanging from the walls of a villa; title: 13. Garden view with corridor of trees with at the end some stone stairs (similar to corridor of drawing 6 in this album); title: 14. Garden view with teahouse with two stories and a terrace (similar garden building as in plate 10 of this album but from different angle?); title: 15. Garden view with multicoloured flower borders. At the left a greenhouse; title: 16. Garden view with pond with an island in the centre with a seating area; title: 17. Garden view with a pond, 2 trees in front and view on the same villa with mansard roof [pencil drawing on blue paper ]; title: 18. View on the city (Hamburg?) from a balcony of the same villa [oval pencil drawing].